Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In his thirtieth year Zarathustra, the archetypal "Ubermensch" representative of the highest passion and creativity, abandons his home for the mountains, where he lives on a level of experience far above the conventional standards of good and evil.

Une édition de référence d'Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra de Frédéric Nietzsche, traduit par Henri Albert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Il faut apprendre à s'aimer soi-même, d'un amour sain et bien portant : afin d'apprendre à se supporter soi-même et de ne point vagabonder – c'est ainsi que j'enseigne. Un tel vagabondage s'est donné le nom « d'amour du prochain » : c'est par ce mot d'amour qu'on...

"Could it be possible? This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!" The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from a life of solitude on the mountain to announce to the world that God has been supplanted by the "Superman", the divine in human form. In one of the most radical and influential works of modern philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche lays out the new standards of morality after the "death of God". Frequently...

Offers a selection from the author's notebooks, chosen by his sister, that reveals his views on nihilism, art, morality, religion, the theory of knowledge, and other subjects.

"The Basic Writings of Nietzsche" collects some of the most famous and representative works of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In this anthology you will find complete editions of "The Birth of Tragedy," a work of dramatic theory written early in the philosopher's career, "Beyond Good and Evil," a polemic critique of past philosophers in regards to their considerations of morality, "On the Genealogy of Morals," which would expound upon the...

"Twilight of the Idols, 'a grand declaration of war' on all the prevalent ideas o his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way fro The Anti-Christ, a final assault of institutional Christianity." --

"Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" remains his most famous and influential work. 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. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning...