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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

A Book for None and All

By Walter Kaufmann, Friederich Nietzsche

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| Paperback | 9780140047486

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A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author’s views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or "superman," a term later perverted by Nazi propContinue

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Love 'im or hate 'im, Nietzsche was one heck of a writer, whatever one's personal feelings of his philosophies. TSZ is possibly Nietzsche's best-known work, mostly famous for the often taken out of context "God is dead" quote. However, it's an exuberant, frenetic work which has challenged generatio ... (continue)

Love 'im or hate 'im, Nietzsche was one heck of a writer, whatever one's personal feelings of his philosophies. TSZ is possibly Nietzsche's best-known work, mostly famous for the often taken out of context "God is dead" quote. However, it's an exuberant, frenetic work which has challenged generations of students, philosophers and just plain old dilettantes.
Definitely worth reading, if only to understand why this has had such an enormous impact on subsequent political and philosophical thought.

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English Books
Paperback 352 Pages
ISBN-10: 0140047484
ISBN-13: 9780140047486
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub date: Mar 30, 1978
Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Unbound and Others
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