Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~96,400 words · 458 passages
Cite this work
- APANietzsche. (n.d.). Thus Spoke Zarathustra. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nietzsche/thus-spake-zarathustra-a-book-for-all-and-none
- MLANietzsche. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nietzsche/thus-spake-zarathustra-a-book-for-all-and-none.
- ChicagoNietzsche. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nietzsche/thus-spake-zarathustra-a-book-for-all-and-none.
What it is about
A prophet comes down from his mountain to announce that God is dead and that man is a rope stretched toward something greater: Nietzsche's strangest book, half gospel, half poem, all dynamite.
Context and history
Written in bursts between 1883 and 1885, in four parts, much of it during summers at Sils-Maria in the Swiss Alps. Nietzsche had just broken with Wagner and come through the Lou Salomé episode, and he wrote almost without readers: only forty private copies of the fourth part were printed, because no publisher wanted it. A deliberate parody of biblical style, it carries his most famous and most misunderstood ideas — the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence. Its posthumous fame was immense and often toxic: no book of his has been so quoted or so distorted.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE By Friedrich Nietzsche Translated By Thomas Common CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA. FIRST PART. Zarathustra’s Prologue. Zarathustra’s Discourses. I. The Three Metamorphoses. II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue. III. Backworldsmen. IV. The Despisers of the Body. V. Joys and Passions. VI. The Pale Criminal. VII. Reading and Writing. VIII. The Tree on the Hill. IX. The Preachers of Death. X. War and Warriors. XI. The New Idol. XII. The Flies in the Market-place. XIII. Chastity. XIV. The Friend. XV. The Thousand and One Goals. XVI. Neighbour-Love. XVII. The Way of the Creating One. XVIII. Old and Young Women. XIX. The Bite of the Adder. XX. Child and Marriage. XXI. Voluntary Death. XXII. The Bestowing Virtue. SECOND PART. XXIII. The Child with the Mirror. XXIV. In the Happy Isles. XXV. The Pitiful. XXVI. The Priests. XXVII. The Virtuous. XXVIII. The Rabble. XXIX. The Tarantulas. XXX. The Famous Wise Ones. XXXI. The Night-Song. XXXII. The Dance-Song. XXXIII. The Grave-Song. XXXIV. Self-Surpassing. XXXV. The Sublime Ones. XXXVI. The Land of Culture. XXXVII. Immaculate Perception. XXXVIII. Scholars. XXXIX. Poets. XL. Great Events. XLI. The Soothsayer. XLII. Redemption. XLIII. Manly Prudence. XLIV. The Stillest Hour. THIRD PART. XLV. The Wanderer. XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma. XLVII. Involuntary Bliss. XLVIII. Before Sunrise. XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue. L. On the Olive-Mount. LI. On Passing-by. LII. The Apostates. LIII. The Return Home. LIV. The Three Evil Things. LV.