Antichrist
Chapter 1 of 8 Introduction by HL Mencken
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- Running time
- 3 h 58 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- D.E. Wittkower, Judy Bieber, Kirsten Ferreri, ML Cohen
- Translated by
- H. L. Mencken
Chapters
About this recording
Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Of all Nietzsche’s books, The Antichrist comes nearest to conventionality in form. It presents a connected argument with very few interludes, and has a beginning, a middle and an end. The reason to listen to this version is that H.L. Mencken, the famous journalist, turned Nietzsche's German into such direct, plain-spoken American English that it puts the haranguing philosopher right up in your face.