friedrich nietzsche book thus spoke zarathustra

There are many things for the spirit, for the strong, weight-bearing spirit in which dwell respect and awe: its strength longs for the heavy, for the heaviest. I name you three metamorphoses of the spirit: how the spirit shall become a camel, and the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. As such, it can also be an evasive, beguiling, and incomplete work. It is, after all, the story of a prophet’s journey sharing wisdom, telling parables, encountering interlocutors and observing the behaviour of others. The style has been described as ‘mock Biblical’. This is in contrast to Nietzsche’s other work “there concision, brevity, directness of statement are present”. Here, “the eruption of words, metaphors, figures and wordplay suggests an eruption of feeling”. RJ Hollingdale, who translated and wrote the introduction to this edition, describes it as an “eruption of manner”. Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo that he chose Zarathustra as the voice for his philosophy because Zarathustra was the first to see within the battle between good and evil the essence of many other arguments and for upholding truthfulness as a supreme virtue.īefore we can even discuss the content of the book, we must discuss the style of the book that the reader will be confronted with from the first page. In it, Nietzsche chooses to express his ideas through the voice of the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra (aka Zoroaster). Thus Spoke Zarathustra is perhaps Nietzsche’s most enduringly well-read work with non-academics.

Friedrich nietzsche book thus spoke zarathustra