5/12/2023 0 Comments Thus spoke zarathustra kaufmann![]() ![]() Walter Kaufmann (with On the Genealogy of Morals ), ed. ![]() With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free. Especially in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche sought to envision redemption from the weight. ![]() Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. ![]() I investigate the relationship of philosophy to art in the story of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, reading the two to be warring parties in a work in which we might expect them to coincide. Description Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential and literature, offering an interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra while using William Wordsworth’s Prelude in an illustrative role. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Adrian Del Caro (ed., tr.), Robert Pippin (ed. ![]()
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