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Thus Spake Zarathustra

treatise by Nietzsche
Also known as: “Also sprach Zarathustra”, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”(Show More)
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Thus Spake Zarathustra, treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in four parts and published in German between 1883 and 1885 as Also sprach Zarathustra. The work is incomplete, according to Nietzsche’s original plan, but it is the first thorough statement of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and the masterpiece of his career. It received little attention during his lifetime, but its influence since his death has been considerable in the arts as well as philosophy. Written in the...

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