The Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist

Two of Nietzsche's last completed works, written in a feverish burst in the summer and autumn of 1888 — months before his collapse into madness. Twilight of the Idols opens with the declaration that this small book is 'a great declaration of war' and proceeds to philosophize with a hammer, demolishing Socrates, the morality of pity, the German educational system, and the four great errors of philosophy. The Antichrist follows up with a frontal assault on Christianity as the religion of the weak — a rancorous, brilliant, sometimes terrifying tract that Nietzsche himself called 'a curse upon Christianity.' Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici.