The Antichrist is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published
in 1895 Although it was written in 1888, its content made Franz Overbeck and
Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo.
Nietzsche claims in the preface to have written the book for a very limited
readership. To understand the book, he asserts that the reader "must be honest in
intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness,
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