On January 18, 1889, Franz Overbeck, a theologian from Basel, went to Turin to try to save his friend Nietzsche who had fallen into a deep insanity – a task that turned out to be impossible – finding him surrounded by piles of papers, recovering what he believed among which was the (carefully wrapped) manuscript of The Antichrist, published in 1895. This work has been misunderstood because it has also been misunderstood, perhaps because, as the author himself pointed out, it is a book for a select minority. : “This book belongs to the least. Perhaps none of them are alive yet. They will undoubtedly be those who understand my Zarathustra… Some are born posthumously”.

The antichrist constitutes one of the key works of Nietzschean thought, it is a theology in reverse, a theology of sin. Despite the fact that several paragraphs of the work were initially mutilated, even the subtitle Curse on Christianity was omitted, leading to the belief that it was a Transvaluation of all values, it managed to come to light in all its greatness. In The Antichrist, the multiple aspects of the Christian decadence are discovered. The author religiously experiences the end of religions. He tells us: “Christians have killed God without understanding it, and they live by that death and by the desire for annihilation. The corpse of God slowly rots in his soul.

Nietzsche carried out one of the most profound transformations of our culture. With his thematic-reflexive breadth, he broke down the barriers between the different philosophical disciplines, reflecting on everything that is human. Rejecting systematic thinking, he profoundly changed the way of philosophizing, turning it into experimental thinking, thus managing to undermine commonly accepted systems and open paths to the unknown.