Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work misquoted
misrepresented brilliantly original and enormously influential Nietzsche was one of the most
revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains
his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra
descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the
Superman the human embodiment of divinity is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is
dead' his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms and his
doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably
twisted by among others Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance
Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek
submission to authority but in an all-powerful life force: passionate chaotic and free. For
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