Todd's review
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Todd's review
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
Todd's review
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western-philosophy
recommended for: Jill
I reread this book periodically. Nietzche's work is often completely misunderstood and misrepresented. He is one of the most reviled thinkers in the western philosophical pantheon. Some of this comes from Nietzche himself who went bonkers toward the end of his short life (it was a brain tumor actually and not syphllis as many believe) and some of it comes from the Nazi perverts who did not apprhend his concept of the uberman and used his ideas to justify some of their more perverted ideas.
Zarathustra is his first work and easily his most accessible work. It's a fun read as well. Written in a pseudeo scriptural style Nietzsche expounds his basic ideas thru the experiences of the young prophet Zarathustra who goes off to the mountain to find God and later, after discovering there is no one but himself, comes back to tell all who would listen what he is discovered and how "man is to be overcome."
Zarathustra is his first work and easily his most accessible work. It's a fun read as well. Written in a pseudeo scriptural style Nietzsche expounds his basic ideas thru the experiences of the young prophet Zarathustra who goes off to the mountain to find God and later, after discovering there is no one but himself, comes back to tell all who would listen what he is discovered and how "man is to be overcome."
