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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 04440117 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 004441392 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 445001189 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 445001191 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 004442151 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 004442150 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 004442152 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 445001190 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Very Good. 0140047484 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 004442139 _ read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1966-08-24
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047486ISBN:0140047484
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages are tanning at the edges. Has some general wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Probably after WILL TO POWER his most popular work. Both are overrated in that sense. Though I would say people liking the WILL TO POWER, is much worse, because it wasn't actually a book of his so it has no real connection to his thought and it wasn't at all well chosen or well formatted.
This book is good as a standout among his works in that it is a fictional tale, however it is misleading to think this one is easier to read than his other books, because of this it isn't. Every scene is laden with metaphor and analogy, providing strong connections to his other philosophical texts. This book will not be entertaining to someone who doesn't like Nietzsche's other books, but thinks this might be fun since its a "fictional" story. His one aim was providing a satirical bible like account of his beliefs, there is little to no character or story progression or a plot to speak of. Everything in the book is just a mouth piece for his philosophy. So just keep that in mind.
Now that those disclaimers are out of the way. I would just like to state that I'm an avid Nietzsche reader and I don;t think this book is a clever and insightful bit of his. It is rewarding to those who are willing to learn the philosophy in the background of which he speaks. So I would highly recommend this with that caveat on in mind.
This particular edition is notable for having an intro by Robert C. Solomon. A noted Nietzsche scholar before he died. The intro is as good as his TTC lectures on Nietzsche and his book WHAT NIETZSCHE REALLY SAID. I would recommend both of those as well."
"Whether or not Nietzsche's masterpiece of Gospel-parody "overcomes" the inherent anarchy of nihilism is a point of contention. Like its distant Scottish cousin, Sartor Resartus, it fails to offer a truly progressive remedy for the human condition (a tendency to favor negative contradictions), but is less reactionary in its attempt. Carlyle sought to return humanity to a spiritual past; Nietzsche sought to free the human spirit from a theological model. Though Nietzsche couched his concept of free will in an "eternal" concept, he removed old ingredients of spirituality from his prescription for the human spirit. In that sense, Zarathustra is a radical, progressive work; yet its allegorical solution to nihilism is easily rendered as social Darwinism by more literal minds."
"A wonderful piece of work, Nietzsche's best, but highly complex, very multifaceted. You should know his other work before you take the intellectual challenge. It touches your spirit just like Goethe's FAUST touches your heart. I needed three tries and age and academic sophistication until I truly comprehended the depth of Nietzsche's superior mind. Reading and understanding ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA might not make you a SUPRAHUMAN ("...lightning out of the dark cloud Mankind"), but it will take you to divine heights that only the few chosen experience."
"Nietzsche tends to be one of those philosophers that readers either really like (the literary crowd who reads the occasional philosopher) or really don't like (the philosophy crowd who reads the occasional novelist). I suppose I am one of the latter. While I enjoy reading some of Nietzsche's works, I enjoy them most when he centers them around his "ideal man" concept. "Thus Spoke" doesn't seem to be one of those. Simply put, the sections are short situational stories concerning Zarathustra and different people that he meets. Zarathustra imparts his unworldly advice and wisdom to those who do not understand it.
Nietzsche was not a religious man, in any real sense of the word, but in this book it is hard to remember that. While I would recommend this book simply because of its "classical" status, I can't say that it was one of my favorites. But, perhaps its only because I do not understand it."
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