{"product_id":"thus-spoke-zarathustra-friedrich-nietzsche-0140441182","title":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One by Friedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA Penguin Classics Book: \u003cem\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra \u003c\/em\u003eby Friedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and \u003cem\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra \u003c\/em\u003eremains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognizably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With \u003cstrong\u003eblazing intensity and poetic brilliance, \u003c\/strong\u003eNietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book Series: Penguin Classics \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50292663353659,"sku":"0140441182","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/27299623482237.jpg?v=1747225785","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/thus-spoke-zarathustra-friedrich-nietzsche-0140441182","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}