Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra (soft cover)

From the publisher: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) - German thinker, classical philologist, composer, creator of an original philosophical doctrine, which is emphatically non-academic in nature and partly for this reason is widespread, going beyond the scientific and philosophical community. Nietzsche's fundamental concept includes special criteria for assessing reality, which called into question the basic principles of the current forms of morality, religion, culture and socio-political relations and subsequently reflected in the philosophy of life. Being presented in an aphoristic manner, most of Nietzsche's works do not lend themselves to unambiguous interpretation and cause much controversy. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is one of his main works. The book is partly a poetic, partly a philosophical treatise, revealing Nietzsche's own position on what place a person occupies among the society around him, how he understands his life, how he travels, how he knows himself and the world around him. The book focuses on the communication of man with nature, with himself and with other people. The novel tells the story of the fate and teachings of a wandering philosopher who took the name Zarathustra in honor of the ancient Persian prophet. The central idea of the novel is the idea that man is an intermediate stage in the transformation of a monkey into a superman: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman. A rope over the abyss."