Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Walter Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche • BookLikes (ISBN:0140047484)

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by: Friedrich Nietzsche (author) Walter Kaufmann (author)

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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. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religiouspieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic & free.

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780140047486 (0140047484)

ASIN: 140047484

Publish date: March 30th 1978

Publisher: Penguin

Pages no: 327

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Non Fiction, Literature, European Literature, Cultural, Religion, Philosophy, 19th Century, Poetry, Psychology, German Literature, Theory, Germany

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Tolle Lege!. rated it

9 years ago

http://captgwg.booklikes.com Tolle Lege!. 5.0 Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

text Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Not a fiction book, but not quite a philosophy book in as much it doesn't give a foundation as such, but if anything takes away any structure to the world and challenges everything the listener thought he might have thought he knew as certainty.The prophet, Zarathustra, loosely follows the gospel. H...

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Lisa (Harmony) rated it

11 years ago

http://LisaMariaC.booklikes.com Lisa (Harmony) 3.0 Interesting if Disturbing

text Interesting if Disturbing

I find it very difficult to rate or assess--or even make much sense of--this book. Reading it I often thought to myself it was little wonder Nietzsche ended his life in an insane asylum. I don't know that I can say I really "liked" it (three stars) or found it "OK" (two stars on Goodreads) but I jus...

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Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] rated it

11 years ago

http://thebooknerd.booklikes.com Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] 2.0 Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Well, I didn't expect that .. AT ALL!!I thought I'd love this book! What happened?! Damn it!Zarathustra! Please man! You were such a boring little prophet!Look, to be honest, I liked many lines in this book. I marked and even memorized them. But the book as a whole was a BIG disappointment :(The mai...

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shell pebble rated it

11 years ago

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In my uneducated opinion, Nietzsche is really good fun in bitesize bits and by all accounts a mighty thinker, but this is disturbing as philosophy and turgid as literature

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