Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra ) and The Birth of Tragedy

Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

A unique combination of biblical oratory and playfulness, Thus Spoke Zarathustra chronicles the wanderings and teachings of the prophet Zarathustra, who descends from his mountain retreat to awaken the world to its new salvation. Do not accept, he counsels, what almost two thousand years of history have taught you to call evil. The existence of the human race is justified only by the exceptional among us-the “superman,” whose self-mastery and strong “will to power” frees him from the common prejudices and assumptions of the day.

A landmark work of philosophy and of literature, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the fullest expression of Nietzsche’s belief that “the object of mankind should lie in its highest individuals.


The Birth of Tragedy:

The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.

 

The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Victorian era, and it analyzed themes developed in the twentieth century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts, and others.