Thus Spoke Zarathustra

:This article is about the book by Friedrich Nietzsche. For the symphonic poem by Richard Strauss, please see Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss). For the oil painting cycle by Lena Hades, please see Lena Hades.

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss) - Lena Hades

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (the title of the Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale translations; also in English as Thus Spake Zarathustra, Thomas Common translation; German: Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen) is a novel written during the 1880's by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A notable accomplishment of artistry and philosophy, it is one of the most lauded works from nineteenth century literature and the most renowned of Nietzsche's writing. Nietzsche conceived it during his work on The Gay Science with the small note 6,000 feet beyond man and time (this note relating specifically to the concept of the Eternal Recurrence. He planned to write it in three parts over several years.

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Walter Kaufmann - R. J. Hollingdale - Thomas Common - German - Novel - German - Philosopher - Friedrich Nietzsche - Literature - The Gay Science - Eternal Recurrence

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While its general outlook developed he subsequently decided to write another three parts but ultimately composed only the fourth part, an intermezzo. Nevertheless, Nietzsche's sister wrote in her introduction she had notes to the fifth and sixth parts in her possession. These unfinished parts of the book are presumed to depict Zarathustra's further teaching (in general, to move beyond ?nihilism? and morality) and his death.

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Intermezzo - Nietzsche's sister - Nihilism

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To write each part, Nietzsche comments in Ecce Homo: Ten days sufficed; in no case, neither for the first not for the third and last, did I require more. In spite of individual issues of the first three parts, they were published in one volume in 1887; the fourth remained private from 1885, with a scant forty copies printed and with seven others distributed to friends dear to Nietzsche. Before his demise in 1900, the four parts were finally reprinted, in March 1892, as a single volume and constitute the book now commonly produced.

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1887 - 1885 - 1900 - March - 1892

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The degree of word-play conveyed in the original text is substantiated partly by the words ?over? or ?super? and the word ?down? in ?superman?/?overman,? ?overgoing,? ?downgoing,? and ?self-overcoming.?

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