The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in Beyond Good and Evil (1886), grappled with the fundamental issues of the human condition in his own intense autobiography, Ecce Homo (1888). Most notorious of all, perhaps, his idea of the triumphantly transgressive ubermann ('superman') is developed in the extreme, yet poetic words of Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-92). Whether addressing conventional Western philosophy or breaking new ground, Nietzsche vastly extended the boundaries of nineteenth-century thought.

What could have happened to me?...How did I soar to such heights, above the rabble sitting by the well?'Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's compelling autobiography, written in 1888, just weeks before he succumbed to madness. Nietzsche's last great work, a fascinating and bizarre text, traces the development of his own philosophy and the thinkers who influenced him along the way. Both shocking and revealing, Ecce Homo is a window into the mind of one of Germany's most acclaimed philosophers.

Der Ubermensch, der Wille zur Macht und die ewige Wiederkehr des Gleichen. Das sind die zentralen Themen des gro?en Philosophen und Kritikers Nietzsche. Das sind die Lehren, die sein Zarathustra entwickelt, um gegen den lahmenden Nihilismus der Welt einen neuen Sinn zu verleihen. 'Ein Buch fur Alle und Keinen', das in unvergleichlicher Wortmachtigkeit und Poesie seit uber 100 Jahren weltweit auf Resonanz stosst.

This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's 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.

'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most 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. With blazing intensity, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free.

The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative; in his words, this is a book of 'exuberance, restlessness, contrariety and April showers'. With its unique voice and style, its playful combination of poetry and prose, and its invigorating quest for self-emancipation, The Joyous Science is a literary tour de force and quite possibly Nietzsche's best book.

"Also sprach Zarathustra" ist ein dichterisch-philosophisches Werk. Nietzsche schuf keine systematische Philosophie. Oft wahlte er den Aphorismus als Ausdrucksform seiner Gedanken. Seine Prosa, seine Gedichte und der pathetisch-lyrische Stil von Also sprach Zarathustra verschafften ihm auch nerkennung als Schriftsteller.

Фридрих Ницше - легендарный немецкий философ, который одним из первых подверг сомнению причинность воли, единое основание мира и возможность рационального обоснования поступков, а также ввёл понятие "Сверхчеловек". "Так говорил Заратустра" - самая известная книга Ницше, представляющая собой одновременно философский и поэтический трактат-размышление, в котором подняты вопросы о гениальности, воле к власти и, конечно же, о христианских ценностях, бессмертии души и сверхчеловеке. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

In Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the greatest works of western philosophy, Nietzsche brought a revolutionary and critical approach to the ideas of the past. Proclaiming 'God is dead', he extolled the virtues of the 'Superman' and of individuality in his concept of the 'will to power'. Portrayed as the speeches of the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra, Nietzsche examines issues of morality, power, death and self-mastery in a passionate and poetic affirmation of life and freedom.

"Так говорил Заратустра" - философский роман Фридриха Ницше, оставшийся незаконченным, но вобравший в себя все главные идеи немецкого философа: о сверхчеловеке, о воле к власти, вечном возвращении и смерти Бога. Неадаптированное издание на немецком языке.

Издание на немецком языке. Книга "Так говорил Заратустра" Фридриха Ницше, одного из величайших философов XIX века, - это уникальное произведение, которое является вершиной его творческой мысли, квинтэссенцией его философских и литературных идей. Ницше представляет древнеперсидского пророка Заратустру как философского проповедника, призывающего освободиться от конформизма и догматизма, исследовать глубины своей души и обрести свой собственный путь к саморазвитию и самосовершенствованию. Это произведение остается актуальным и вдохновляющим и по сей день, предостерегая нас от апатии и пробуждая к размышлениям о своей собственной судьбе и своем месте в мире. Книга издана в неадаптированной версии. Наслаждайтесь философским миром великого мыслителя Ницше в оригинале!

Friedrich Nietzsche ist einer der meistgelesenen und einflussreichsten Philosophen. Ludger Lutkehaus stellt uns den gro?en Denker und seinen philosophischen Kosmos in diesem Lesebuch vor: Gedanken zur Tragodie, Historie, Wahrheit, dem Willen zur Macht wie auch die Weltanschauung des Nihilismus. Mit den kurzen, zentralen Textpassagen werden uns Nietzsches Werk und seine Wirkung zuganglich. Mit einem Vorwort des Herausgebers. Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk.

Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life This landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, to whom the book was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between two central forces in art: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture.

Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through ill health, Human, All Too Human (1878) can be read as a monument to his personal crisis. It also marks the point when he matured as a philosopher, rejecting the German romanticism espoused by Wagner and Schopenhauer and instead returning to sources in the French Enlightenment. Here he sets out his unsettling views in a series of 638 stunning aphorisms - assessing subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity and women to youth. This work also contains the seeds of concepts crucial to Nietzsche's later philosophy, such as the will to power and the need to transcend conventional Christian morality. The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual impose their own 'will to power' upon the world.

'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!' One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age. These writings, which did much to establish his reputation as a philosopher, offer some of his most powerful and troubling thoughts: on how the values of a new, aggressive elite will save a nihilistic, mediocre Europe, and, most famously, on the 'will to power' - ideas that were seized upon and twisted by later readers. Taken from Nietzsche's unpublished notebooks and assembled by his sister after his death, The Will to Power now appears with previous errors corrected.