Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation) (Volume 4) - Softcover

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1548171611 ISBN 13: 9781548171612

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

A prophetic classic that confronts received values and calls readers to self-overcoming.

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900, originally published in 1883, presents a visionary teacher who descends from solitude to share a new ethic. Set in parables and speeches, the work challenges inherited moralities and asks what humanity might become.

Readers encounter the Ubermensch, the will to power, and an unsparing critique of herd morality rendered in lyrical, aphoristic prose. Its vivid episodes and meditative voice reward close reading while inviting reflection on freedom, responsibility, and self-transformation. Ideal for students of existential philosophy and German philosophy, this edition preserves the book’s striking blend of narrative and thought without spoiling its discoveries.

A cornerstone of modern thought, it remains essential for serious readers of philosophy and literature.

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About the Author

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24.

Era: 19th-century philosophy

Region: Western philosophy

School:
Continental philosophy, German idealism, Metaphysical voluntarism

Main interests:
Aesthetics, Anti-foundationalism, Atheism, Ethics, Existentialism, Fact–value distinction, Metaphysics, Nihilism, Ontology, Philosophy of history, Poetry, Psychology, Tragedy, Value theory, Voluntarism

Notable ideas:
Apollonian and Dionysian, Übermensch, Ressentiment "Will to power", "God is dead", Eternal return, Amor fati, Herd instinct, Tschandala, "Last man", Perspectivism, Master–slave morality, Transvaluation of values. Nietzschean affirmation "genealogy"

Influences:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heraclitus Johann Gottfried Herder, the French moralists, Voltaire, Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Baruch Spinoza, Richard Wagner, Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Influenced:
Theodor W. Adorno, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Jean Baudrillard, Menno ter Braak, Judith Butler, Joseph Campbell, Albert Camus, Emil Cioran, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Julius Evola, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Muhammad Iqbal, Karl Jaspers, Carl Jung, Anthony Ludovici, H. L. Mencken, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Leo Strauss, Bernard Williams, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Simon Vestdijk

—Wikipedia

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1548171611
• ISBN 13: 9781548171612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Levy Dr. Oscar