Nietzsche's 1888 polemic — 'How to Philosophize with a Hammer' — which delivers quick devastating strikes against Socrates, Kant, German culture, and Christianity in rapid aphoristic chapters, showing how the 'idols' of Western philosophy are merely disguised life-denial.
Provides the most compressed and devastating statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy — the critique of Socrates's rationalism as decadence, Kant's 'thing-in-itself' as a covert God, and Christian morality as the most dangerous slave revolt — demonstrating that late Nietzsche is even more radical than early Nietzsche.
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