ABSTRACT
Nietzsche’s astonishingly keen and fearless criticism of Christianity has probably sent forth wider ripples than any other stone he ever heaved into the pool of philistine contentment. He opened his attack in “ Menschliches allzu Menschliches,” the first book of his maturity, and he was still at it, in full fuming and fury, in “ Der Antichrist,” the last thing he was destined to write. The closing chapter of “ Der Antichrist ” — his swan song — contains his famous phillipic, beginning “ I condemn.” It recalls Zola’s “ f accuse ” letter in the Dreyfus case, but it is infinitely more sweeping and infinitely more uproarious and daring.
