Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

A new translation and edition of one of Nietzsche's most original and inventive works.

Robert Pippin (Edited by), Adrian Del Caro (Translated by)

9780521841719, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 June 2006

318 pages
23.4 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.632 kg

'… the style of Del Caro's translation is particularly successful in capturing the rich sonority and hyperbolic, even bombastic rhetoric of Nietzsche's astonishing German …' British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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.

Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the text
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Index.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], History of Western philosophy [HPC]