This book is one of the phenomenal works of Nietzsche, a very popular philosopher. His works are still much sought after, this book was previously published in Bentang Budaya, best seller and printed three times in 2 years. Our other books by Nietzsche The birth of tragedy also became best sellers in Jogja stores.
The Twilight of Idols and the Anti-Christ was written in 1888, at the same time as Ecce Homo was written, an autobiography written by Nietzsche himself. But indeed Nietzsche was a controversial philosopher, he was also famous as the “murderer of God” after he announced “God is Dead” in 1883 and announced himself as Dionysius in Ecce Homo.
The advantage of this book is that it was written by Nietzsche, a 19th century philosopher and freethinker, whose work and thoughts are still influential today. This brilliant original thinker had a huge influence on twentieth century writers such as Franz Kafka, WB. Yeats, Andre Gide, Bernard Shaw, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Iqbal.
Because of its phenomenal and bold content, this book is limited. However, that doesn’t mean that ordinary people can’t read this book, it actually creates curiosity so many people look for this book. Apart from academics majoring in philosophy and philosophy students, this book is often sought after by people interested in classical philosophical works to be used as a collection. Not to mention the beautiful cover, a bit absurd but multi-interpretation.
Broadly speaking, this book contains Nietzsche’s denial of God, his curses on religions. But even though the book contains Nietzsche’s hatred of his stalemate in finding God, Nietzsche still includes several praises of one religion, Buddhism, as a realistic religion. Nietzsche believed that God in this world is superior humans. And in this way he declared that he was the Anti-Christ, because the Lord Jesus Christ had died on the cross.