Part OneZarathustra's Prologue 3Zarathustra's Discourses 29The Three Metamorphoses 30The Academic Chairs of Virtue 34Backworldsmen 39The Despisers of the Body 44Joys and Passions 47The Pale Criminal 50Reading and Writing 54The Tree on the Hill 57The Preachers of Death 62War and Warriors 65The New Idol 68The Flies in the Market-Place 73Chastity 78The Friend 81The Thousand and One Goals 85Neighbor-Love 89The Way of the Creating One 92Old and Young Women 97The Bite of the Adder 101Children and Marriage 104Voluntary Death 108The Bestowing Virtue 113Part TwoThe Child with the Mirror 123In the Happy Isles 128The Compassionate 133The Priests 138The Virtuous 143The Rabble 148The Tarantulas 153The Famous Wise Ones 158The Night-Song 163The Dance-Song 167The Grave-Song 172Self-Surpassing 177The Sublime Ones 183The Land of Culture 187Immaculate Perception 192Scholars 197Poets 201Great Events 207The Soothsayer 213Redemption 219Manly Prudence 227The Stillest Hour 232Part ThreeThe Wanderer 239The Vision and the Enigma 244Involuntary Bliss 252Before Sunrise 258The Bedwarfing Virtue 263On the Olive-Mount 272On Passing-By 277The Apostates 282The Return Home 289The Three Evil Things 295The Spirit of Gravity 303Old and New Tables 310The Convalescent 341The Great Longing 352The Second Dance-Song 357The Seven Seals (Or The Song of Yes and Amen) 363Part FourThe Honey Sacrifice 371The Cry of Distress 377Talk with the Kings 382The Leech 389The Magician 394Out of Service 404The Ugliest Man 411The Voluntary Beggar 419The Shadow 426Noontide 432The Greeting 437The Supper 446The Higher Man 449The Song of Melancholy 465Science 471Among Daughters of the Desert 476The Deserts Grow: Woe Him Who Does Them Hide! 478The Awakening 484The Ass-Festival 490The Drunken Song 496The Sign 508
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, essayist, and critic whose writings on truth, morality, culture, history, power, and consciousness have made him one of the most remarkable thinkers in Western philosophy.Dr. Dirk R. Johnson is Elliott Professor of Modern Languages at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is a leading Nietzsche scholar and the author of Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism. Dr Johnson has a Masters in political science, philosophy, and German from the University of Bonn, and a Ph.D. in German Studies from Indiana University.Tom Butler-Bowdon is series editor of the Capstone Classics series and has written introductions for Plato's Republic, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Marx' & Engels' The Communist Manifesto. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Philosophy Classics, 50 Politics Classics, and 50 Psychology Classics.