Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin Books Limited, Feb 28, 1974 - Philosophy - 352 pages

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. 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. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religiouspieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic & free.

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Those who give this book less than five stars have not really understood what it is about. As somebody else said here: do your 9 to 5, stuff your face with food and die in several decades or years, you'll never be the best you are capable of. And if you object to this, the try to read this book until you understand. 

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I haven't been able to sincerely laugh in a long, long time. This book gave me what I needed: a logical basis for accepting laughter into my life again. I didn't expect the intuitive introvert ...

About the author

Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. He died in 1900. R.J. Hollingdale translated 11 of Nietzsche's books and published 2 books about him.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Penguin classics
• Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
• Translated by: R. J. Hollingdale
• Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 1974
• ISBN: 0141904321, 9780141904320
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / General