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Overview
Although later perverted by Nazi propagandists, the Ubermensch was conceived by Nietzsche to designate the ultimate goal of human existence as the achievement of greatness of will and being. He was convinced that the individual, instead of resigning himself to the weakness of being human and worshipping perfection only possible in the next world (at least in the Christian view), should try to perfect himself during his earthly existence, and transcend the limitations of conventional morality. By doing so, the Ubermensch would emerge victorious, standing in stark contrast to "the last man"--an uncreative conformist and complacent hedonist who embodies Nietzsche's critique of modern civilization, morality, and the Christian religion.
Written in a passionate, quasi-biblical style, Thus Spake Zarathustra is daring in form and filled with provocative, thought-provoking concepts. Today, the work is regarded as a forerunner of modern existentialist thought, a book that has provoked and stimulated students of philosophy and literature for more than 100 years.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789356569386 |
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Publisher: | Double 9 Booksllp |
Publication date: | 04/22/2022 |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d) |
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Table of Contents
Zarathustra's Prologue | 1 | |
Part 1 | ||
I | The Three Metamorphoses | 13 |
II | The Academic Chairs of Virtue | 14 |
III | Backworldsmen | 16 |
IV | The Despisers of the Body | 19 |
V | Joys and Passions | 20 |
VI | The Pale Criminal | 22 |
VII | Reading and Writing | 23 |
VIII | The Tree on the Hill | 25 |
IX | The Preachers of Death | 27 |
X | War and Warriors | 28 |
XI | The New Idol | 29 |
XII | The Flies in the Market-place | 31 |
XIII | Chastity | 34 |
XIV | The Friend | 35 |
XV | The Thousand and One Goals | 36 |
XVI | Neighbour-Love | 38 |
XVII | The Way of the Creating One | 39 |
XVIII | Old and Young Women | 41 |
XIX | The Bite of the Adder | 43 |
XX | Child and Marriage | 44 |
XXI | Voluntary Death | 46 |
XXII | The Bestowing Virtue | 48 |
Part 2 | ||
XXIII | The Child with the Mirror | 53 |
XXIV | In the Happy Isles | 55 |
XXV | The Pitiful | 57 |
XXVI | The Priests | 59 |
XXVII | The Virtuous | 61 |
XXVIII | The Rabble | 63 |
XXIX | The Tarantulas | 65 |
XXX | The Famous Wise Ones | 68 |
XXXI | The Night-Song | 70 |
XXXII | The Dance-Song | 71 |
XXXIII | The Grave-Song | 73 |
XXXIV | Self-Surpassing | 76 |
XXXV | The Sublime Ones | 78 |
XXXVI | The Land of Culture | 80 |
XXXVII | Immaculate Perception | 82 |
XXXVIII | Scholars | 84 |
XXXIX | Poets | 86 |
XL | Great Events | 88 |
XLI | The Soothsayer | 91 |
XLII | Redemption | 93 |
XLIII | Manly Prudence | 97 |
XLIV | The Stillest Hour | 99 |
Part 3 | ||
XLV | The Wanderer | 103 |
XLVI | The Vision and the Enigma | 106 |
XLVII | Involuntary Bliss | 110 |
XLVIII | Before Sunrise | 112 |
XLIX | The Bedwarfing Virtue | 115 |
L | On the Olive-Mount | 119 |
LI | On Passing-by | 121 |
LII | The Apostates | 124 |
LIII | The Return Home | 127 |
LIV | The Three Evil Things | 130 |
LV | The Spirit of Gravity | 133 |
LVI | Old and New Tables | 136 |
LVII | The Convalescent | 152 |
LVIII | The Great Longing | 156 |
LIX | The Second Dance Song | 159 |
LX | The Seven Seals | 162 |
Part 4 and Last | ||
LXI | The Honey Sacrifice | 166 |
LXII | The Cry of Distress | 169 |
LXIII | Talk with the Kings | 172 |
LXIV | The Leech | 175 |
LXV | The Magician | 177 |
LXVI | Out of Service | 183 |
LXVII | The Ugliest Man | 186 |
LXVIII | The Voluntary Beggar | 190 |
LXIX | The Shadow | 193 |
LXX | Noontide | 195 |
LXXI | The Greeting | 198 |
LXXII | The Supper | 202 |
LXXIII | The Higher Man | 203 |
LXXIV | The Song of Melancholy | 212 |
LXXV | Science | 215 |
LXXVI | Among Daughters of the Desert | 218 |
LXXVII | The Awakening | 222 |
LXXVIII | The Ass-Festival | 225 |
LXXIX | The Drunken Song | 228 |
LXXX | The Sign | 234 |
Appendix | Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra | 237 |
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Nietzche wrote stylistically dazzling books - works sparkling with audacious insults to his age, venturing into more and more radical psychology, radiating a more and more glaring white light... [He was] a thinker, psychologist, and master of language who revolutionized the whole atmosphere of his era.