니체의 적그리스도외 우상들의 불가사의황혼.The Twilight of the Idols - The Antichrist,by Friedrich Wi

니체의 적그리스도외 우상들의 불가사의황혼.The Twilight of the Idols - The Antichrist,by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
The Twilight of the Idols was written towards the end of the summer of 1888, its
composition seems to have occupied only a few days,―so few indeed that, in
Ecce Homo (p. 118), Nietzsche says he hesitates to give their number; but, in
any case, we know it was completed on the 3rd of September in Sils Maria. The
manuscript which was dispatched to the printers on the 7th of September bore
the title: "Idle Hours of a Psychologist"; this, however, was abandoned in favour
of the present title, while the work was going through the press. During
September and the early part of October 1888, Nietzsche added to the original
contents of the book by inserting the whole section entitled "Things the Germans
Lack," and aphorisms 32- 43 of "Skirmishes in a War with the Age"; and the book,
as it now stands, represents exactly the form in which Nietzsche intended to
publish it in the course of the year 1889. Unfortunately its author was already
stricken down with illness when the work first appeared at the end of January
1889, and he was denied the joy of seeing it run into nine editions, of one
thousand each, before his death in 1900.
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo (p. 118):―"If anyone
should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my[ Pg viii] time
was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in this book. That which
is called 'Idols' on the title- page is simply the old truth that has been believed in
hitherto. In plain English, The Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on
its last legs."
Certain it is that, for a rapid survey of the whole of Nietzsche's doctrine, no book,
save perhaps the section entitled "Of Old and New Tables" in Thus Spake
Zarathustra, could be of more real value than The Twilight of the Idols