Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Robert B. Pippin (Editor), Adrian Del Caro (Translation)

Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the eternal return of the same. This edition offers a new translation by Adrian Del Caro which restores the original versification of Nietzsche's text and captures its poetic brilliance. Robert Pippin's introduction discusses many of the most important interpretative issues raised by the work, including who is Zarathustra and what kind of 'hero' is he and what is the philosophical significance of the work's literary form? The volume will appeal to all readers interested in one of the most original and inventive works of modern philosophy.

Genres: Philosophy

316 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 30, 2006

About the author

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including Kant's Theory of Form; Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; and Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations. In addition he has published on issues in political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom. He also wrote a book about literature and philosophy: Henry James and Modern Moral Life. A collection of his essays in German, Die Verwirklichung der Freiheit, appeared in 2005, as did The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath, and his book on Nietzsche, Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception nietzschéenne d'une psychologie philosophique, appeared in 2006. Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy appeared in 2012. He was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, and was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reviews

[Andreas Dueck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got through half of it then it got kind of repetitive, was pretty insightful though

[Joshua · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite an enigmatic book. There is a lot of wisdom to be found in these pages, to be sure, but it is hidden behind the smoke and mirrors of a unique mind. But of course, you must read it, and thus you shall go over.

[Cory · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the book, but it wasn't easy. The first part was difficult and seed to go on forever. I almost gave up at that point. I decided I would stick with it. I'm glad I did. I found the next sections more interesting. This book is not for the average reader, you need to be really invested in it. If you do read it, just know that it will be worth it.