Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche

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  1. Part 2: XL. Great Events

    Published: 11/23/2024

  2. Part 2: XLI. The Soothsayer

    Published: 11/22/2024

  3. Part 2: XLII. Redemption

    Published: 11/21/2024

  4. Part 2: XLIII. Manly Prudence

    Published: 11/20/2024

  5. Part 2: XLIV. The Stillest Hour

    Published: 11/19/2024

  6. Part 3: XLV. The Wanderer

    Published: 11/18/2024

  7. Part 3: XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma

    Published: 11/17/2024

  8. Part 3: XLVII. Involuntary Bliss

    Published: 11/16/2024

  9. Part 3: XLVIII. Before Sunrise

    Published: 11/15/2024

  10. Part 3: XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue

    Published: 11/14/2024

  11. Part 3: L. On the Olive-Mount

    Published: 11/13/2024

  12. Part 3: LI. On Passing-by

    Published: 11/12/2024

  13. Part 3: LII. The Apostates

    Published: 11/11/2024

  14. Part 3: LIII. The Return Home

    Published: 11/10/2024

  15. Part 3: LIV. The Three Evil Things

    Published: 11/9/2024

  16. Part 3: LV. The Spirit of Gravity

    Published: 11/8/2024

  17. Part 3: LVI. Old and New Tables

    Published: 11/7/2024

  18. Part 3: LVII. The Convalescent

    Published: 11/6/2024

  19. Part 3: LVIII. The Great Longing

    Published: 11/5/2024

  20. Part 3: LIX. The Second Dance-Song

    Published: 11/4/2024

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche’s influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Thus Spake Zarathustra is a work composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the “eternal recurrence of the same”, the parable on the “death of God”, and the “prophecy” of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as “the deepest ever written”, the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition.