Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Author(s)

• Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.

Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), is a work composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as "the deepest ever written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition. (Summary from Wikipedia)

1. Zarathustra's Prologue
2. Part 1: I. The Three Metamorphoses
3. Part 1: II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue
4. Part 1: III. Backworldsmen
5. Part 1: IV. The Despisers of the Body
6. Part 1: V. Joys and Passions
7. Part 1: VI. The Pale Criminal
8. Part 1: VII. Reading and Writing
9. Part 1: VIII. The Tree on the Hill
10. Part 1: IX. The Preachers of Death
11. Part 1: X. War and Warriors
12. Part 1: XI. The New Idol
13. Part 1: XII. The Flies in the Market-place
14. Part 1: XIII. Chastity
15. Part 1: XIV. The Friend
16. Part 1: XV. The Thousand and One Goals
17. Part 1: XVI. Neighbour-Love
18. Part 1: XVII. The Way of the Creating One
19. Part 1: XVIII. Old and Young Women
20. Part 1: XIX. The Bite of the Adder
21. Part 1: XX. Child and Marriage
22. Part 1: XXI. Voluntary Death
23. Part 1: XXII. The Bestowing Virtue
24. Part 2: XXIII. The Child with the Mirror
25. Part 2: XXIV. In the Happy Isles
26. Part 2: XXV. The Pitiful
27. Part 2: XXVI. The Priests
28. Part 2: XXVII. The Virtuous
29. Part 2: XXVIII. The Rabble
30. Part 2: XXIX. The Tarantulas
31. Part 2: XXX. The Famous Wise Ones
32. Part 2: XXXI. The Night-Song
33. Part 2: XXXII. The Dance-Song
34. Part 2: XXXIII. The Grave-Song
35. Part 2: XXXIV. Self-Surpassing
36. Part 2: XXXV. The Sublime Ones
37. Part 2: XXXVI. The Land of Culture
38. Part 2: XXXVII. Immaculate Perception
39. Part 2: XXXVIII. Scholars
40. Part 2: XXXIX. Poets
41. Part 2: XL. Great Events
42. Part 2: XLI. The Soothsayer
43. Part 2: XLII. Redemption
44. Part 2: XLIII. Manly Prudence
45. Part 2: XLIV. The Stillest Hour
46. Part 3: XLV. The Wanderer
47. Part 3: XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma
48. Part 3: XLVII. Involuntary Bliss
49. Part 3: XLVIII. Before Sunrise
50. Part 3: XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue
51. Part 3: L. On the Olive-Mount
52. Part 3: LI. On Passing-by
53. Part 3: LII. The Apostates
54. Part 3: LIII. The Return Home
55. Part 3: LIV. The Three Evil Things
56. Part 3: LV. The Spirit of Gravity
57. Part 3: LVI. Old and New Tables
58. Part 3: LVII. The Convalescent
59. Part 3: LVIII. The Great Longing
60. Part 3: LIX. The Second Dance-Song
61. Part 3: LX. The Seven Seals
62. Part 4: LXI. The Honey Sacrifice
63. Part 4: LXII. The Cry of Distress
64. Part 4: LXIII. Talk with the Kings
65. Part 4: LXIV. The Leech
66. Part 4: LXV. The Magician
67. Part 4: LXVI. Out of Service
68. Part 4: LXVII. The Ugliest Man
69. Part 4: LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar
70. Part 4: LXIX. The Shadow
71. Part 4: LXX. Noon-Tide
72. Part 4: LXXI. The Greeting
73. Part 4: LXXII. The Supper
74. Part 4: LXIII. The Higher Man
75. Part 4: LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy
76. Part 4: LXXV. Science
77. Part 4: LXXVI. Among Daughters of the Desert
78. Part 4: LXXVII. The Awakening
79. Part 4: LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival
80. Part 4: LXXIX. The Drunken Song
81. Part 4: LXXX. The Sign