Also sprach Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
German • Public Domain • Free to stream
Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) is one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy. Written as a philosophical poem, it presents Nietzsche's ideas of the Ubermensch, the will to power, and the eternal recurrence through the prophet Zarathustra, who descends from his mountain to share his wisdom with humanity. Challenging, poetic, and unlike anything else ever written. Stream free in native German.
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Friedrich Nietzsches „Also sprach Zarathustra" (1883–1885) ist ein ungewöhnliches philosophisches Werk: kein akademisches Traktat, sondern eine poetisch-mystische Erzählung, die sich als „Buch für Alle und Keinen" versteht. Der Prophet Zarathustra steigt vom Berge hinab, um der Menschheit eine radikale Umwertung aller Werte zu verkünden.
Nietzsche, der selbst unter schwerem Leiden und Einsamkeit schrieb, hat in diesem Werk seine philosophisch revolutionärste Vision präsentiert: Die Überwindung des Christentums und der Sklavenmoral durch eine neue, lebensbejahende Ethik. Der „Übermensch" – nicht im biologischen, sondern im existenziellen Sinne – wird zum Ziel: ein Mensch, der jenseits von Gut und Böse, jenseits der Herde lebt und seine eigenen Werte schafft.
Das Werk behandelt zentrale Nietzscheanische Konzepte: die „Ewige Wiederkehr", den „Willen zur Macht", die Ablehnung der Sklavenmoral, den Wert von Leid und Kampf. Was das Werk revolutionär macht, ist seine Form: Nietzsche schrieb nicht, um zu dozieren, sondern um zu transformieren. Jedes Kapitel ist eine Meditation, eine Prüfung, ein Spiegel für den Leser selbst.
„Also sprach Zarathustra" ist zeitlos, weil es jeden zu radikaler Selbstreflexion zwingt: Wer bin ich wirklich? Wessen Werte lebe ich – meine eigenen oder der Herde?
About the book: Also sprach Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and published in four volumes between 1883 and 1885. The first three parts were initially published individually and were first published together in a single volume in 1887. The fourth part was written in 1885, and Nietzsche had forty copies printed at his own expense and distributed to his closest friends.
The book consists largely of discourses by its protagonist, the historical Zarathustra, on a wide variety of subjects. It deals with multiple topics ranging from the mundane to philosophical, such as metaphysics, war, perspectivism, and the amorality of nature. Furthermore, the work began or elaborated on many of Nietzsche's core ideas, including the Übermensch, the death of God, the will to power, and eternal recurrence.
Nietzsche stated that the central idea of the eternal recurrence first occurred to him in August 1881 while he was walking through the woods along the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine.
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