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Paperback Wordsworth Classics of World Literature English
By (author) Friedrich Nietzsche , Translated by Anthony Common , Series edited by Tom Griffith , Introduction by Nicholas Davey Nietzsche


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Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey.


This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsches thought. God is dead, he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the UEbermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty.


Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre.


Product details

Format Paperback | 352 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 18mm | 221g
Publication date 01 Dec 1999
Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication City/Country Herts, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition New edition
Edition Statement New edition
ISBN10 1853267767
ISBN13 9781853267765
Bestsellers rank 14,563