Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with a Hammer is one of Nietzsche’s last books, written in 1888.
As Nietzsche was starting to become recognised, he felt that he needed a short text that would serve as an introduction to his thought. In a letter, he wrote: “This style is my philosophy in a nutshell – radically up to criminal…”
The book offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy, preparing the way for The Anti-Christ, a final assault on institutional Christianity, which would be the first part of his Revaluation of All Values. Which, unfortunately, he could not complete, due to his mental breakdown in 1889.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (0:50) Part I. Foreword (1:17) Part II. Maxims and Arrows (1:37) Part III. The Problem of Socrates (2:25) Part IV. ‘Reason’ in Philosophy (3:32) Part V. How the ‘Real World’ at last Became a Myth (4:27) Part VI. Morality as Anti-Nature (5:57) Part VII. The Four Great Errors (7:07) Part VIII. The ‘Improvers’ of Mankind (7:42) Part IX. What the Germans Lack (8:30) Part X. Expeditions of an Untimely Man (9:11) Part XI. What I Owe to the Ancients (9:34) Part XII. The Hammer Speaks