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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Paperback. This series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of Zarathustra, contains the kernel of Nietzche's original thought. In it he states that "God is dead" and that Christianity is decadent and leads mankind into a slave morality concerned with the next life rather than this. Translator(s): Common, Anthony. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Herts, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853267765
SKU
V9781853267765
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99-20
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