Author: Friedrich Nietzche
Publisher: Pomona Pre
Keywords: zarathustra, spake, thus
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1443733806
ISBN-13: 9781443733809

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a book written during the 1880s by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Hard to categorize, the work is a treatise on philosophy, a highly praised work of literature, and in parts a collection of poetry and in others a parody of and amendment to the Bible. Consisting largely of speeches by the book’s main person Zarathustra, the work’s content extends across a vast range of styles and subject matter. Nietzsche himself described the work as "the deepest ever written".

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: zarathustra, spake, thus
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-08-06
List price: $21.90
ISBN-10: 1406852724
ISBN-13: 9781406852721

A philosophical novel by the German philosopher, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, and translated into English by Thomas Common.

Author: Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: zarathustra, spake, thus
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2009-07-10
List price: $32.75
ISBN-10: 1110779771
ISBN-13: 9781110779772

Author: Paul S. Loeb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: zarathustra, nietzsche, death
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2010-05-24
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521519233
ISBN-13: 9780521519236

In this study of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a new account of the relation between the book’s literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book’s narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence. Loeb shows how Nietzsche constructed a unified and complete plot in which the protagonist dies, experiences a deathbed revelation of his endlessly repeating life, and then returns to his identical life so as to recollect this revelation and gain a power over time that advances him beyond the human. Through close textu

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: one, penguin, classics, everyone, book, spoke, zarathustra, thus
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1961-11-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140441182
ISBN-13: 9780140441185

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 religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic & free.

Author: Robert Gooding-Williams
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: modernism, dionysian, zarathustra
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0804732957
ISBN-13: 9780804732956

In arguing that Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism-that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values-the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. His interpretation also places the work at the center of Nietzsche’s life and career.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: thrift, editions, dover, zarathustra, spake, thus
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-01-05
List price: $3.50
ISBN-10: 0486406636
ISBN-13: 9780486406633

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 propagandists. A passionate, quasi-biblical style is employed to inspire readers.