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Summary: It's the most beautiful philosophy I've ever read.
Review: Words cannot express the respect I have for this book, nor the zeal with which I would advise one to read it. Granted, it is difficult, and in spots so esoteric as to defy any kind of direct interpretation, but in many others it simply shimmers with beauty. Personal favorites are "The Tree on the Mountainside," "On the Way of the Creator," and especially "The Tomb Song." Also, check out Strauss's musical work of the same name (Also Sprach Zarathustra), from which we get the theme to the movie 2001.
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Summary: Hail the Overman!
Review: Nietzsche is my favorite philosopher! This book, out of all he has written spoke to me. We all have a higherman within and we must strive to go under. "God is Dead" and the pity that God felt for mankind is the cause for his demise. I too feel pity for man. I also feel pity for the earth. I believe that the next great philosopher will write that "Man is Dead" and that Man died from the pity he felt for the earth.
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Summary: Essential reading!
Review: A masterpiece, plain and simple. A must have!
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Summary: Nietzsche's Magnum Opus
Review: Nietzsche himself calls Zarathustra "the greatest gift" that he has given to humanity, in Ecce Homo, and yet the book still remains true to its title, "A book for All and None."The key to the book lies in linking it with a much earlier work, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, and also with the work that came just before Zarathustra, The Gay Science. In the former work, Nietzsche outlines, for the first time, on how history may be employed for the purposes of life - this isn't about nihilism, and one is forced to wonder if many writers understand what "nihilism" means. In The Gay Science, Nietzsche briefly returns to this theme in the encounter with the demon in aphorism 325 )or thereabouts). In other words, Zarathustra's central theme is the teaching of eternal recurrance, and it is in Zarathustra where one can attempt to interpret what Nietzsche meant by eternal recurrance. Look closely at "The Adder's Bite," "The Vision and the Riddle," "Of Old and New Law Tables," "The Drunken Song," and, most importantly, "Of Redemption." There are treasures in this book that hold the keys to Nietzsche's bounty - read him like Plato. Enjoy!!!!
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Summary: A veritable ascent!!!
Review: Nietzsche's usual aphoristic parables strike a remarkable chord in this beautiful text. Biblical metaphors and philosophic discontent immerse readers in a deluge of nihilistic "wisdom." Nietzsche proposed a new way a life, a way to escape our human, all too human slave morality. Can man ascend from his doldrums here on earth without a God? Can man recover from his eternal nausea? The "revelations" and "prophecies" in Zarathustra astound and arouse every emotion. Prepare to be charmed by one the 19th century's greatest thinkers. Prepare to be horrified at man's future without the Lord.
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Summary: Nietzsche went way overboard with this one...
Review: As usual, Nietzsche tries to "bend trees" with his self-will run riot. This is a classic however in the Nietzcheian sense, in that the reader must be careful not to fall into the common "thought-traps" and be lulled into thinking that one knows everything that the writings try to whisper into ones ears. God is not necessarily dead, but if we are to grow as human beings eternally, one must risk and learn to develop ones sense of accomplishment. If not, one may meet one's self coming in to make the donuts as one is going home from making the donuts. I enjoyed the graphic sense of "being there" painted by the fast moving chapters, splendid neurotic (even psychotic) ranting: Negating often that what he has just spent many words in asserting, with merely a strategically placed trite phrase. Of course, like with many of Nietzsche's books, one has to remember that what one reads may change in value and message over time depending upon one's! circumstanecs in life. Don't "over-think" it...just go with the flow and take a few notes to keep track of the chips as they fall into place.
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Summary: A challenging and remarkable book!
Review: Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an incredible work of philosophical genius! I was amazed and challenged by it. Nietzsche's writing is very enjoyable and enlightening, whether or not one agrees with his conclusions. His philosophy is fascinating, though not for the light-hearted. This is definitely a book for thinking people who want to see the world in a new and different light!
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Summary: Perhaps the Greatest Work of Philosophy
Review: This is the greatest work by the only philosopher who may rival Plato; the struggle between Plato and Nietzsche encompasses virtually all the fundamental alternatives in philosophy. (Leo Strauss once said that Plato gave the most comprehensive account of the Whole, and Nietzsche gave the most comprehensive critique of that account.) The book is not easy; a thorough knowledge of Plato's REPUBLIC is needed. One should reread and reflect on every word. A hint: the first passage of ZARATHUSTRA, the descent from the mountain cave, should be carefully read in relation to Plato. All of Nietzsche's philosophy is encapsulated in that descent...
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Summary: Have you ever spoken thus? Have you ever cried thus?
Review: "You lived in solitude as in the sea, and the sea bore you. Alas, do you want to go ashore? Alas, do you want again to drag your body yourself?" Nietzsche accepts nothing less than bedrock individualism. His tactics and positions are extreemist -- accept them, don't cower. He uses this forceful literary method to encourage you to leave the heard and become the heardsman. At the root of his anti-Catholic ferver and his uncompromising belief system, is the overwhelming desire to have the book force you to confront yourself. Ironically, you must examine his titanic prose with the most delicate ear; you will hear the siren of Self calling. It is your decision wether to run from it.
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Summary: Gazing Out From the Eye of the Storm
Review: Throughout modern history Nietzsche has been a badly misquoted individual. In real life he has been a profoundly humanist philosopher, urging people not to look into afterworlds for consolation, but to themselves and what shall be their own creating. He is asking the impossible from today's society: that people should acknowledge themselves as their own creators and evaluators, a self-sufficiency feared by today's petty power structures. The length which was taken to express this view on mankind was phenomenal, and Nietzsche stayed undeterred by the fascism of his day. If you have enjoyed any works on existentionalism, you will love this book, quite possibly his finest collection of discourses ever published.
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