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Nietzsche's famous attack upon established Christianity and
religion is brought to the reader in this superb hardcover edition
of The Antichrist, introduced and translated by H.L. Mencken. The
incendiary tone throughout The Antichrist separates it from most
other well-regarded philosophical texts; even in comparison to
Nietzsche's earlier works, the tone of indignation and conviction
behind each argument made is evident. There is little lofty
ponderousness; the book presents its arguments and points at a
blistering pace, placing itself among the most accessible and
comprehensive works of philosophy. The Antichrist comprises a total
of sixty-two short chapters, each with distinct philosophical
arguments or angle upon the targets of Christianity, organised
religion, and those who masquerade as faithful but are in actuality
anything but. Pointedly opposed to notions of Christian morality
and virtue, Nietzsche vehemently sets out a case for the faith's
redundancy and lack of necessity in human life.
NOTES ON DEMOCRACY by H. L. MENCKEN JONATHAN. Contents include: I
DEMOCRATIC MAN 1 HIS APPEARANCE IN THE WORLD 9 2 VARIETIES OF HOMO
SAPIENS 15 3 THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY 21 POLITICS UNDER DEMOCRACY 29 5
THE ROLE OF THE HORMONES 35 6 ENVY AS A PHILOSOPHY 42 Jx LIBERTY
AND DEMOCRATIC MAN 51 THE EFFECTS UPON PROGRESS 58 9 THE ETERNAL
MOB 7 2 II THE DEMOCRATIC STATE 1 THE TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRACY 79 2
THE POPULAR WILL 85 3 DISPROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION 97 4 THE
POLITICIAN UNDER DEMOCRACY 1 07 5 UTOPIA 115 6 THE OCCASIONAL
EXCEPTION 124 7 THE MAKER OF LAWS 131 8 THE REWARDS OF VIRTUE 139 9
FOOTNOTE ON LAME DUCKS 148 5 CONTENTS PAGE III DEMOCRACY AND
LIBERTY 1 THE WILL TO PEACE 157 2 THE DEMOCRAT AS MORALIST 1 62 3
WHERE PURITANISM FAILS 1 77 4 CORRUPTION UNDER DEMOCRACY 187 IV
CODA 1 THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY 2O7 2 LAST WORDS 2l8. DEMOCRATIC
MAN: HIS APPEARANCE IN THE WORLD. DEMOCRACY came into the Western
World to the tune of sweet, soft music. There was, at the start, no
harsh bawling from below there was only a dulcet twittering from
above. Democratic man thus began as an ideal being, full of
ineffable virtues and romantic wrongs in brief, as Rous seaus noble
savage in smock and jerkin, brought out of the tropical wilds to
shame the lords and masters of the civilized lands. The fact
continues to have important consequences to this day. It remains
impossible, as it was in the eighteenth century, to separate the
democratic idea from the theory that there is a mystical merit, an
esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of
the scale - that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a sort
of superiority - nay, the superiority of superiorities. Everywhere
on earth, save where the enlightenment of the modern age is
confessedly in transient eclipse, the move ment is toward the
completer and more enamoured enfranchisement of the lower orders.
Down there, one hears, lies a deep, illimitable reservoir of
righteousness and wisdom, unpolluted by the corruption of
privilege. What baffles statesmen is to be solved by the people,
instantly and by a sort of seraphic intuition. Their yearnings are
pure they alone are capable of a perfect patriot ism in them is the
only hope of peace and happi ness on this lugubrious ball. The cure
for the evils of democracy is more democracy This notion, as I
hint, originated in the poetic fancy of gentlemen on the upper
levels - senti mentalists who, observing to their distress that the
ass was over-laden, proposed to reform trans port by putting him
into the cart. A stale Chris tian bilge ran through their veins,
though many of them, as it happened, toyed with what is now called
Modernism. They were the direct ancestors of the more saccharine
Liberals of to-day, who yet mouth their tattered phrases and dream
their pre posterous dreams. I can find no record that these
phrases, in the beginning, made much impression upon the actual
objects of their rhetoric. Early democratic man seems to have given
little thought to the democratic ideal, and less veneration. What
he wanted was something concrete and highly materialistic - more to
eat, less work, higher wages, lower taxes. He had no apparent
belief in the acroamatic virtue of his own class, and certainly
none in its capacity to rule. His aim was not to exterminate the
baron, but simply to bring the baron back to a proper discharge of
baronial busi ness. When, by the wild shooting that naturally
accompanies all mob movements, the former end was accidentally
accomplished, and men out of the mob began to take on baronial
airs, the mob itself quickly showed its opinion of them by
butchering them deliberately and in earnest. Once the pikes were
out, indeed, it was a great deal more dangerous to be a tribune of
the people than to be an ornament of the old order...
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The Anti-Christ (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Translated by H.L. Mencken
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Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ,
wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity.
This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand
Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy. "We
should not deck out and embellish Christianity: it has waged a war
to the death against this higher type of man, it has put all the
deepest instincts of this type under its ban, it has developed its
concept of evil, of the Evil One himself, out of these
instincts-the strong man as the typical reprobate, the 'outcast
among men.' Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the
low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the
self-preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even
the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most
vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as
sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. The most lamentable
example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed that his intellect
had been destroyed by original sin, whereas it was actually
destroyed by Christianity " -Friedrich Nietzsche
In this hardcover edition, Nietzsche's classic critique of the
composer Wagner is paired with three other works, including The
Antichrist, in translations to English which render the
philosopher's arguments vividly cogent. First published in 1888,
The Case for Wagner is a selection of essays and aphorisms levy a
variety of criticisms, with Nietzsche ironically making a
comparison between Wagner and a French composer, Georges Bizet. The
Antichrist comprises a total of sixty-two short chapters, each
containing a distinct philosophical argument or angle upon the
targets of Christianity, organised religion, and those who
masquerade as faithful but are in actuality anything but. This
edition also includes a selection of aphorisms penned by Nietzsche,
many of which effectively summarize points he visited in his
philosophy.
The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken is
readily acknowledged in the vast literature on the great American
journalist and social critic. However, Mencken's 1908 study of the
philosopher has been relegated to footnote status by Mencken's
critics and biographers and has been largely ignored by Nietzsche
scholars. There are good reasons for reversing this judgment.
Mencken's work was one of the first comprehensive and sympathetic
treatments of Nietzsche's thought in the English language. It is a
provocative engagement with the German philosopher's complex and
elusive ideas, enhanced by a style that reverberates with a verve
and dynamism approaching Nietzsche's own. Mencken presents a view
of Nietzsche that elucidates the latter's complex and contentious
form of the "gospel of individualism" while evincing a keen
appreciation of his unrivalled capacity for critical analysis. The
historical scope of Nietzsche's thought is fully evident in
Mencken's analysis as is its application to modern societies and
politics. In tracing the biographical and intellectual impetus for
Nietzsche's relentless attacks on conventional moralities and
established modes of thought, Mencken discerned both an ideal and a
method for grappling with social and cultural issues that remain
salient in our own time.
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The Anti-Christ (Paperback)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Introduction by H.L. Mencken; Translated by H.L. Mencken
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This is Nietzsche's last book and a fitting capstone to his career.
It's succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of
Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an
8,000-word introduction by its translator, the famous iconoclastic
writer H. L. Mencken.
Collected here in this omnibus edition are three of Nietzsche's
three most important books: The Anti-Christ, Beyond Good and Evil,
and Thus Spake Zarathustra, as well as The Philosophy of Friedrich
Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken. A perfect book for new readers of
Nietzsche or anyone hoping to understand his writing and philosophy
more thoroughly. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry
Louis Mencken was the first, and many believe the best book on the
subject. Mencken was known for his attention to detail. This book
is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand Nietzche and his
underlying philosophy. Thus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of
philosophical literature, and it is here that Nietzsche uttered the
famous phrase "God is dead " This powerful book spells out
Nietzsche's belief in the will to power, and serves as an
introduction to his doctrine of eternal return. One of the most
influential books of philosophy ever written. Nietzsche writes with
style, power, and conviction. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense
and their blind acceptance of the Christian premises in their
consideration of morality. The work attempts to moves "beyond good
and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality
which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favor of what
he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the
perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the
modern individual. Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece
The Anti-Christ, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight
on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing
tounderstand Nietzsche and his place within the history of
philosophy.
The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken is
readily acknowledged in the vast literature on the great American
journalist and social critic. However, Mencken's 1908 study of the
philosopher has been relegated to footnote status by Mencken's
critics and biographers and has been largely ignored by Nietzsche
scholars. There are good reasons for reversing this judgment.
Mencken's work was one of the first comprehensive and sympathetic
treatments of Nietzsche's thought in the English language. It is a
provocative engagement with the German philosopher's complex and
elusive ideas, enhanced by a style that reverberates with a verve
and dynamism approaching Nietzsche's own.
Mencken presents a view of Nietzsche that elucidates the
latter's complex and contentious form of the "gospel of
individualism" while evincing a keen appreciation of his unrivalled
capacity for critical analysis. The historical scope of Nietzsche's
thought is fully evident in Mencken's analysis as is its
application to modern societies and politics. In tracing the
biographical and intellectual impetus for Nietzsche's relentless
attacks on conventional moralities and established modes of
thought, Mencken discerned both an ideal and a method for grappling
with social and cultural issues that remain salient in our own
time.
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of
the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and
politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after
Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The
Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken
classics: "Happy Days," "Heathen Days," "Newspaper Day"s,
"Prejudices," "Treatise on the Gods," "On Politics," "Thirty-Five
Years of Newspaper Work," "Minority Report," and "A Second Mencken
Chrestomathy."
In 1956, Mencken read through his notebooks and extracted those
pieces he thought truest, most pertinent, most precise, or most
likely to blow the dust out of a reader's brain.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of
the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and
politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after
Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The
Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken
classics: "Happy Days," "Heathen Days," "Newspaper Day"s,
"Prejudices," "Treatise on the Gods," "On Politics," "Thirty-Five
Years of Newspaper Work," "Minority Report," and "A Second Mencken
Chrestomathy."
Most of these autobiographical writings first appeared in the
"New Yorker." Here Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy
boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the
free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and
politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after
Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The
Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken
classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices,
Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper
Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy. In the
second volume of his autobiography, Mencken recalls his years as a
young reporter.
With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of
the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and
politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after
Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The
Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken
classics: "Happy Days," "Heathen Days," "Newspaper Day"s,
"Prejudices," "Treatise on the Gods," "On Politics," "Thirty-Five
Years of Newspaper Work," "Minority Report," and "A Second Mencken
Chrestomathy."
Written in 1941-42, these highlights capture the excitement of
newspaper life in the heyday of print journalism.
An Unabridged, Unaltered 1924 Edition with Introduction by H. L.
Mencken to include a Preface by the author.
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