Name: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
SKU: 54697344
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Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
ISBN: 9789354623134

Type

Physical Book

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher

True Sign Publishing House

Language

English

Pages

354

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x2 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9789354623134

Synopsis "Thus Spoke Zarathustra "

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is perhaps Nietzsche's most enduringly well-read work with non-academics. In it, Nietzsche chooses to express his ideas through the voice of the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra (aka Zoroaster). Zarathustra says, "'We have invented happiness, ' say the last men, and they blink." The people cheer, and ask Zarathustra to turn them into these last men. Just then, a tightrope walker begins walking between two towers in the town. The main theme of the text, expressed in Zarathustra's first address to the people after coming down from his mountain cave, is the transformation or further evolution of humankind. The story unfolding in the text involves also Zarathustra's own struggle and transformation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844-Weimar, August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, musician, and philologist, whose work has had a profound influence on contemporary global thought and Western culture.
Nietzsche wrote on topics as diverse as art, philology, music, history, religion, science, and tragedy. He critiqued culture, religion, and Western philosophy through the genealogy of the concepts that integrate them, based on the analysis of moral attitudes (positive and negative) towards life.
It is particularly notable the influence exerted on Nietzsche by the also German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whom he considered his teacher, although he did not follow Schopenhauer's ideas dogmatically, and in many aspects, he diverged from his thought, even making a radical critique of his philosophical ideas.

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