Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the Übermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty. Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre.
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Publisher
Wordsworth Editions, The Limited
ISBN-10
1853267767
ISBN-13
9781853267765
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, History & Surveys / Modern