Tag: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Major Works

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    - Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, 1883. Recommended translation: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, 1961.
    Excerpt: When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning… More

Commentary

  • “Zarathustra and the Magician or, Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Some Difficulties in the Concept of the Overman”

    - Robbins, Leonard.  "Zarathustra and the Magician or, Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Some Difficulties in the Concept of the Overman."  Man and World 9, no. 2 (June 1976): 175-95.
    Excerpt: “What torments must Zarathustra have caused his creator, what pricks and snubs and deep embarrassments ! For surely Nietzsche is no superman, and he suffers under the weight of his ideal. In turn, is not Nietzsche himself Zarathustra’s… More

  • Nietzsche’s Gift

    - Harold Alderman, Nietzsche's Gift, Ohio University Press, 1977.

  • Between a Fool and a Corpse: Zarathustra and the Overcoming of Man

    - Perkins, Richard.  Between a Fool and a Corpse: Zarathustra and the Overcoming of Man. Mount Pleasant: Enigma Press, 1980.

  • Nietzsche’s Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    - Lampert, Laurence.  Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
    From the Publisher: “The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” — an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence… More

  • Nietzsche’s Zarathustra by Stanley Rosen

    - Rosen, Stanley. The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
    From the Publisher: This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic analysis of one of Nietzsche’s most important but least understood works. Stanley Rosen argues that in Zarathustra Nietzsche lays the groundwork for philosophical and political… More