Thus spoke Zarathustra : a book for everyone and no one
(2003)

Nonfiction

Book

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193/NIETZSCHE,F

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Adult Nonfiction 193/NIETZSCHE,F Due: 2/1/2026

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PUBLISHED
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003
DESCRIPTION

342 pages ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780140441185, 0140441182 :, 0140441182, 9780140441185
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"This translation first published in 1961 ; reprinted with new introduction, 1969 ; reprinted with new chronology and further reading, 2003"--Title page verso

"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"--Goodreads.com

Translation of Also sprach Zarathustra

Translation of: Also sprach Zarathustra

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