Katie's review
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Katie's review
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Nietzsche
Katie's review
rating:
recommended for: Anyone who feels they should read Nietszche but are turned off by his other books
** spoiler alert **
While this book will sadly always be bogged down in Nietzsche's unresolved and immature childhood angst, his poetic brilliance is...well, brilliant.
The real stride of Zarathustra lies more at the beginning, with the prophet's existence rather petering out toward the end, rather than the usual ascent into spiritual ecstasy with which similar stories finish. Still, I suppose if I read the text as an insight into the mind of Nietzsche himself - rather than an educational, theological journey - then the parallels of the author's and his subject's psyches is very satisfying.
I should mention that I am not at all offended by the decidedly anti-feminine sentiment that is ubiquitous in the book. This is precisely because - as a woman, and therefore with a biological predisposition toward empathy and care of another human being - I can see the source of his anger. Most of the men around him died when he was very young, leaving the females to be the rule-setters and law-enforcers of an u...more
The real stride of Zarathustra lies more at the beginning, with the prophet's existence rather petering out toward the end, rather than the usual ascent into spiritual ecstasy with which similar stories finish. Still, I suppose if I read the text as an insight into the mind of Nietzsche himself - rather than an educational, theological journey - then the parallels of the author's and his subject's psyches is very satisfying.
I should mention that I am not at all offended by the decidedly anti-feminine sentiment that is ubiquitous in the book. This is precisely because - as a woman, and therefore with a biological predisposition toward empathy and care of another human being - I can see the source of his anger. Most of the men around him died when he was very young, leaving the females to be the rule-setters and law-enforcers of an u...more
