The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche · first published 2008
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The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche. It made me question my faith and my entire existence.
on “Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?” ↗…bound to be held up, examined and incontinently kicked out. This leaves the field to the intellectual jelly-fish and inner tubes." – Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun, 26/7/1920 Incidentally, have you read Anti-Christ? I doubt it. It's not "the Anti-Christ" (i.e. the devil) but Anti-Christ (i.e. something written against, arguing against Jesus) - which it's not, actually. I don't think it says a single word against…
on “The Anti-Bamboozler: Early writings of H. L. Mencken” ↗I wouldn't say Nietzsche "embraced the nihilism". Embraced atheism, sure. Even The Anti-Christ I think says not a word against Jesus, who he seems to admire, but is aimed against the corruption of Jesus' teachings by priests and the Church. His teacher Schopenhauer–the first atheist modern western…
on “Kierkegaard’s Leap” ↗