Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Full bibliographic data for Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Title

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Subtitle

A Book for Everyone and No One

Authors and contributors

By (author) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Translated by R. J. Hollingdale, Introduction by R. Hollingdale

Physical properties

Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight: 258 g

Audience

General/trade
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780140441185
ISBN 10: 0140441182

Classifications

LCification:B
Dewey:193
Nielsen BookScan Product Class:S2.1
BIC subject category:HPC
BISAC category code:PHI009520
BISAC category code:PHI016000

Edition statement

Reprint

Illustrations note

notes

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint name

PENGUIN CLASSICS

Publication date

01 March 1978

Publication City/Country

London/GB

Biographical note

Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair ofical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. He died in 1900. R.J. Hollingdale translated 11 of Nietzsche's books and published 2 books about him.

Main description

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 G.d is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic & free.

Table of contents

Part 1 Zarathustra's discourses: of the three metamorphoses; of the chairs of virtue; of the afterworldsmen; of the despisers of the body; of joys and passions; of the pale criminal; of reading and writing; of the tree on the mountainside; of the preachers of death; of war and warriors; of the new idol; of the flies of the market-place; of chastity; of the friend; of the thousand and one goals; of love of one's neighbour; of the way of the creator; of old and young women; of the Adder's bite; of marriage and children; of voluntary death; of the bestowing virtue. Part 2: the child with the mirror; on the blissful islands; of the compassionate; of the priests; of the virtuous; of the rabble; of the tarantulas; of the famous philosophers; of the night song; the dance song; the funeral song; of self-overcoming; of the sublime men; of the land of culture; of immaculate perception; of scholars; of poets; of great events; the prophet; of redemption; of manly prudence; the stillest hour. Part 3: the wanderer; of the vision and the riddle; of involuntary bliss; before sunrise; of the virtue that makes small; on the mount of olives; of passing by; of the apostates; the home-coming; of the three evil things; of the spirit of gravity; of old and new law-tables; the convalescent; of the great longing; the second dance song; the seven seals (or - the song of Yes and Amen). Part 4: the honey offering; the cry of distress; conversation with the kings; the leech; the sorcerer; retired from service; the ugliest man; the voluntary beggar; the shadow; at noontide; the greeting; the last supper; of the higher man; the song of melancholy; of science; among the daughters of the desert; the awakening; the ass festival; the intoxicated song; the sign.