![]() ![]() With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. Read reviews and buy Thus Spoke Zarathustra - (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Paperback) at Target. 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. But that soil will one day be poor and exhausted, and no lofty tree will any longer be able to grow thereon. It is time for man to plant the germ of his highest hope. ![]() Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. And thus spake Zarathustra unto the people: It is time for man to fix his goal. Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential ![]()
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