The Antichrist
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
A work of Nietzsche’s later years, The Antichrist was written after Thus Spoke Zarathustra and shortly before the mental collapse that incapacitated him for the rest of his life. The work is both an unrestrained attack on Christianity and a further exposition of Nietzsche’s will-to-power philosophy so dramatically presented in Zarathustra., , Christianity, says Nietzsche, repr….Read More
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