Livre de tous les superlatifs, le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche continue de fasciner, 120 ans apres sa premiere publication. Par son ecriture, d'abord, qui rappelle, a bien des egards, la Bible et sa dimension allegorique mais aussi la poesie sombre sombre d'Holderlin. Par la presence du personnage de Zarathoustra ensuite, qui tient autant du Christ, par son cote prophetique, que du revolutionnaire, qui annonce le surhomme, c'est a dire celui qui veut aller au-dela des valeurs reconnues et des verites admises, sans volonte de domination."

Uno de los libros que describe mejor el pensamiento de tardio de Nietzsche. Fue el primer libro inedito que paso por las manos de Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche quien suprimio parrafos enteros y hasta el subtitulo que llevaba el libro: "Maldicion sobre el cristianismo""

The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Cosi parlo Zarathustra. Un libro per tutti e per nessuno (tedesco: Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch fur Alle und Keinen) e il titolo di un celebre libro del filosofo tedesco Friedrich Nietzsche, composto in quattro parti fra il 1883 e il 1885. Gran parte dell'opera tratta i temi dell'eterno ritorno, della parabola della morte di Dio, e la profezia dell'avvento dell'oltreuomo, che erano stati precedentemente introdotti ne La gaia scienza. Definito dallo stesso Nietzsche come "il piu profondo che sia mai stato scritto," il libro e un denso ed esoterico trattato di filosofia e di morale, e...

People commended unto Zarathustra a wise man, as one who could discourse well about sleep and virtue: greatly was he honoured and rewarded for it, and all the youths sat before his chair. To him went Zarathustra, and sat among the youths before his chair. And thus spake the wise man: Respect and modesty in presence of sleep That is the first thing And to go out of the way of all who sleep badly and keep awake at night Modest is even the thief in presence of sleep: he always stealeth softly through the night. Immodest, however, is the night-watchman; immodestly he carrieth his horn. No...

Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, "Ecce Homo," "The Antichrist" is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Notes for it had been accumulating for years and it was to have constituted the first volume of his long-projected magnum opus, "The Will to Power." His full plan for this work, as originally drawn up, was as follows:

We Philologists By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In this book we find a "subterrestrial" at work, digging, mining, undermining. You can see him, always provided that you have eyes for such deep work, -how he makes his way slowly, cautiously, gently but surely, without showing signs of the weariness that usually accompanies a long privation of light and air. He might even be called happy, despite his labours in the dark. Does it not seem as if some faith were leading him on, some solace recompensing him for his toil?

One should only speak where one cannot remain silent, and only speak of what one has conquered-the rest is all chatter, "literature," bad breeding. My writings speak only of my conquests, "I" am in them, with all that is hostile to me, ego ipsissimus, or, if a more haughty expression be permitted, ego ipsissimum. It may be guessed that I have many below me.... But first I always needed time, convalescence, distance, separation, before I felt the stirrings of a desire to flay, despoil, lay bare, "represent" (or whatever one likes to call it) for the additional knowledge of the world, something...