Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Publication Date: 20/03/2020

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The book chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra. Zarathustra's namesake was the founder of Zoroastrianism, usually known in English as Zoroaster. Nietzsche is clearly portraying a "new" or "different" Zarathustra, one who turns traditional morality on its head. He goes on to characterise "what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoralist:" (Wikipedia)

ISBN:
9783962726119
9783962726119
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-03-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
OTBebook publishing
Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later.

Known for saying that 'god is dead,' Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

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