by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422612513
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical work by the German writer Friedrich Nietzsche, published in four parts between 1883 and 1885. The book explores themes such as morality, religion, the death of God, and the Superman, through the figure of Zarathustra, a prophet who descends from the mountains to share his wisdom with the world. The work is known for its poetic style and its profound impact on philosophy and Western culture.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
