Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140047486)

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All

$17.00
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN-10: 0140047484
ISBN-13: 9780140047486
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/30/1978
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.08w x 0.69d
By Friedrich Nietzsche
By Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that "god is dead," Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

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