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Should I read beyond good and evil or Thus Spoke Zarathustra first?
No. It is not. Infact, they both say the same thing, just that Zarathustra, being a philosophical novel, is more poetic and less detailed. However, If you are reading to understand Nietzsche, I recommend you read BGE.
What should I read before Beyond Good and Evil?
I’d recommend starting with Zarathustra, as it’s very enjoyable and, for the most part, relatively easy to understand. When you get to the third part of it, things get a bit funky, so you might want to read some secondary literature, too.
How many pages is Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
352
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781593082789 |
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Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
Publication date: | 12/01/2005 |
Series: | Barnes & Noble Classics Series |
Pages: | 352 |
How do I start Friedrich Nietzsche?
Here’s my recommended reading plan for Nietzsche; in this order:
- The Antichrist (1888)
- Twilight of the Idols (1888)
- Genealogy of Morals (1887)
- Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
- The Gay Science (1882)
- Daybreak (1881)
- Human A.
What does Thus Spoke Zarathustra mean?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra will forever retain its mystery and is a monument to Nietzsche’s eccentricity. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen = Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One = So Zarathustra Spoke. A book for Everyone and No One.
Is the book Zarathustra better than the book BGE?
No. It is not. Infact, they both say the same thing, just that Zarathustra, being a philosophical novel, is more poetic and less detailed. However, If you are reading to understand Nietzsche, I recommend you read BGE. It is practically a surmise of all his ideas.
What is it like to read Zarathustra as a teenager?
Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience; the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli) because he went insane.
How does the book follow Zarathustra’s journey?
The book follows Zarathustra not only as he preaches to his disciples ways in which to reach the Superman state, but also his journey in reaching it himself. The most interesting part of this was Zarathustra’s discourse of the phases of spiritual metamorphosis represented by the camel]