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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics)
Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential
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. 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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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. 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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Readers Top Reviews
Durga PrasadDurga
Received 'Home Science - class 12' book instead. Nice troll, Amazon 👊
useruserJoshua Le
Honestly feels like a scam because I paid more than the original price marked on the back of the book while it’s clearly being sold for the second time as used judging from the tags. Condition okay but definitely not “like new” as described.
A MuseruserJoshua
For those who are a) not merely peace seekers but bliss seekers who are ready to risk peace for bliss and b) willing to use this book for introspection not merely for formula mimicking, this book can bring them to exceptional heights and depths.
Arthur RobeyA Mus
Nietzche dances along the edge of schizophrenia, which a Horrobin has noted is HUMAN WRIT LARGE. There is nothing exceptional in normalcy, by definition, therefore only madmen can be geniuses. I Am well acquainted with schizophrenia, and Nietzche's work offers an insight into their intense inner world. He was spurned by the sane, not for loving too little, but for loving too intensely. You will wait in vain for the promised superman to emerge, for this is a story of his gestation, not his birth. We await his birth wondering who he is; and what his nature. Perhaps this is an overhang from Nietzche's monotheists past, with all their talk of "The Return of the Messiah" Us Vanatru, one the other hand, have our Sacred and eternal Wheel of Life.
SAHAran Joseph Ca
When I saw "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Dover at $2.5, new, sold through Prime, I thought it was a great deal. But that "Spake" in the title should have been a red flag...I missed it. If you want to add Shakespearean English to an already difficult text, then go for Dover Edition, translated in 1911 by T. Common. But if you want a modern English version, so you can focus on the meaning of the sentences rather than making an effort to translate the translation to modern English, then go for the Hollingdale 1969 translation by Penguin Classics instead. The example below suffices: Dover: "'Lo! Now hath the world become perfect!' -thus thinketh every woman when she obeyeth with all her love." Penguin: "'Behold, now the world has become perfect!' -thus thinks every woman when she obeys with all her love." Pages after pages full of old style prose that gets tiring after 10 pages (the archaic word "obeyeth" no longer even appears in any dictionary). I won't return the Dover's book because, at a couple of dollars, is not worth my trip to USPS. But I just purchased the Penguin classics for $8 (used, acceptable condition).
