About this title: Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the eternal return of the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601753ISBN:0679601759
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Modern Library (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601753ISBN:0679601759
Description: 1968 viking compass edition translated by walter kaufmann princeton university. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Modern Library (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995-09-01
ISBN-13:9780679601753ISBN:0679601759
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601753ISBN:0679601759
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780521841719ISBN:0521841712
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.21 by.91 inches. (316 pages) a new translation and edition of one of nietzsche's most original and inventive works. nietzsche regarded 'thus spoke zarathustra' as his most important work, and it has had an enormous influence on subsequent culture. this edition offers a new translation, which captures the text's poetic brilliance, together with an introduction which discusses many of the most important interpretative issues raised by the work. nietzsche regarded 'thus spoke ... read more
Edition: Mass Paperback Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1978
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. A PENGUIN BOOK. 327 pages. A philosophical novel by the German philosopher and the author of ECCE HOMO amd THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY. Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA: A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE [ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA: EIN BUCH FÜR ALLE UND KEINEN] is a treatise on philosophy and morality. A very good mass pbk copy in pictorial wrappers. Overall moderate age-and shelf-rubbing on its corners and edges. The text (with very minimal ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679601753ISBN:0679601759
Description: Good in G jacket. Dj has some wrinkles, light rubbing and edge wear. Light wear to boards. Clean pages. A REAL Used Bookstore since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied. read more
"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."
"Through all the pompous arrogance of the main character and what becomes apparent at times as something of a juvenile angst Thus Spake Zarathustra felt like an essential read. The dismissing of belief systems in favour of Der Übermensch as a bridge to "rosy dawns", rather then a goal is something I will never forget. There are some beautiful passages, and a lot of terribly vague ones as well (which are perhaps best understood with a little bit of prior knowledge of the authors personal life). The english translation is easy to read even if there is plenty to try and interpret, the distinct lack of unnecessary verbosity a good thing."
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