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Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey.
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the bermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty.
Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre.
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 11/05/1997
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781853267765
ISBN10: 1853267767
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | General
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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