Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody

880 Pages·2005·2.04 MB·English

by  Friedrich Nietzsche

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A Book for Everyone and Nobody
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by
GRAHAM PARKES
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THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844–1900) was born in Röcken, Saxony, and
educated at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. At the age of only 24
he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of
Basle, but prolonged bouts of ill health forced him to resign from his
post in 1879. Over the next decade he shuttled between the Swiss Alps
and the Mediterranean coast, devoting himself entirely to thinking and
writing. His early books and pamphlets (The Birth of Tragedy, Untimely
Meditations) were heavily influenced by Wagner and Schopenhauer, but
from Human, All Too Human (1878) on, his thought began to develop
more independently, and he published a series of ground-breaking
philosophical works (The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond
Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals) which culminated in a frenzy
of production in the closing months of 1888. In January 1889 Nietzsche
suffered a mental breakdown from which he was never to recover, and
he died in Weimar eleven years later.
GRAHAM PARKES is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He
is the editor of Nietzsche and Asian Thought (1991), author of Composing
the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche’s Psychology (1994), and co-translator of
Georges Liébert’s Nietzsche and Music (2004).
CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
Note on the Text and Translation
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
Explanatory Notes
Index
For Helen
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations are used in the references to Nietzsche’s
works (references to individual books are to part and/or paragraph
numbers):
B Friedrich Nietzsche: Sämtliche Briefe, Kritische Studienausgabe, ed.
Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 8 vols. (Munich, 1986);
references are to dates
BGE Beyond Good and Evil
EH Ecce Homo
HA Human, All Too Human
JS The Joyful Science
SE Schopenhauer as Educator
W Friedrich Nietzsche: Sämtliche Werke, Kritische Studienausgabe, ed.
Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 15 vols. (Munich, 1980);
references are to volume and section numbers
WS The Wanderer and His Shadow (in HA)