Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobodyhus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the aftermath of "the death of God." His solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence, which he calls "the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained." A successful engagement with this profoundly Dionysian idea enables us to choose clearly among the myriad possibilities that existence offers, and thereby to affirm every moment of our lives with others on this "sacred" earth. Grahm Parkes's new translation is more accurate than previous versions, and is the first to retain the musicality of the original, by paying attention to the rhythms and cadences of the German. His introduction examines the work's three most important philosophical ideas and for the first time annotates the abundance of allusions to the Bible and other classic texts with which Nietzsche's masterpiece is in conversation. |
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Contents
CONTENTS | 5 |
FIRST PART | 7 |
ZARATHUSTRAS PROLOGUE | 9 |
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA I | 14 |
THE SPEECHES OF ZARATHUSTRA I On the Three Transformations | 23 |
On the Professorial Chairs of Virtue | 25 |
On Believers in a World Behind | 27 |
On the Despisers of the Body | 30 |
The NightSong | 91 |
The DanceSong | 93 |
The GraveSong | 95 |
On SelfOvercoming | 98 |
On Those Who Are Sublime ΙΟΙ | 101 |
On the Land of Culture | 103 |
On Immaculate Perception | 105 |
On the Scholars | 108 |
On Enjoying and Suffering the Passions | 31 |
On the Pale Criminal | 33 |
On Reading and Writing | 35 |
On the Tree on the Mountainside | 37 |
On the Preachers of Death | 39 |
On War and WarriorPeoples | 41 |
On the New Idol | 43 |
On the Flies of the MarketPlace | 45 |
On Chastity | 48 |
On the Friend | 49 |
On the Thousand Goals and | 51 |
On Love of Ones Neighbour | 53 |
On the Way of the Creator | 54 |
On Old and Young Little Women | 57 |
On the Bite of the Adder | 59 |
On Children and Marriage | 60 |
On Free Death | 62 |
On the Bestowing Virtue | 64 |
SECOND PART | 69 |
The Child With the Mirror | 71 |
Upon the Isles of the Blest | 73 |
On Those Who Pity | 75 |
On the Priests | 78 |
On the Virtuous | 80 |
On the Rabble | 83 |
On the Tarantulas | 85 |
On the Famous Wise Men | 88 |
On the Poets | 110 |
On Great Events | 112 |
The Soothsayer | 116 |
On Redemption | 119 |
On Human Cleverness | 123 |
The Stillest Hour | 126 |
THIRD PART | 129 |
The Wanderer | 131 |
On the Vision and Riddle | 134 |
On Blissfulness Against Ones Will | 138 |
Before the Sunrise | 141 |
On the Virtue That Makes Smaller | 144 |
Upon the Mount of Olives | 149 |
On Passing By | 152 |
On Apostates | 155 |
The Return Home | 158 |
23 | 183 |
W W W N N N N O 9 | 237 |
Explanatory Notes | 288 |
27 | 289 |
35 | 292 |
39 | 295 |
41 | 304 |
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