In Search Of Zarathustra

Author : Paul Kriwaczek
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426351
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Zarathustra written by Paul Kriwaczek and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from the Indus to the Nile and spread as far as Britain. Following Zarathustra’s elusive trail back through time and across the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish worlds, Paul Kriwaczek uncovers his legacy at a wedding ceremony in present-day Central Asia, in the Cathar heresy of medieval France, and among the mystery cults of the Roman empire. He explores pre-Muslim Iran and Central Asia, ultimately bringing us face to face with the prophet himself, a teacher whose radical humility shocked and challenged his age, and whose teachings have had an enduring effect on Western thought. The result is a tour de force of travel and historical inquiry by an adventurer in the classic tradition.

Author : Paul Kriwaczek
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Zarathustra written by Paul Kriwaczek and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only an enthralling travel book, "In Search of Zarathustra" is also a revelation of the importance of the prophet, and a brilliantly conceived and lucid explication of the belief systems that helped shape the European Enlightenment, the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages, and the beginning of the Christian era. of full-color photos.

Author : Paul Kriwaczek
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1400031427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Zarathustra written by Paul Kriwaczek and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, there lived in Persia a prophet to whom we owe the ideas of a single god, the cosmic struggle between good and evil, and the Apocalypse. His name was Zarathustra, and his teachings eventually held sway from the Indus to the Nile and spread as far as Britain. Following Zarathustra’s elusive trail back through time and across the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish worlds, Paul Kriwaczek uncovers his legacy at a wedding ceremony in present-day Central Asia, in the Cathar heresy of medieval France, and among the mystery cults of the Roman empire. He explores pre-Muslim Iran and Central Asia, ultimately bringing us face to face with the prophet himself, a teacher whose radical humility shocked and challenged his age, and whose teachings have had an enduring effect on Western thought. The result is a tour de force of travel and historical inquiry by an adventurer in the classic tradition.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387401475
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thus Spoke Zarathustra written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche's masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher's famous discussion of the phrase 'God is dead' as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity's definition of good and evil. Revised translation with modern American English spelling.

Author : Gaia Domenici
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030176703
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jung's Nietzsche written by Gaia Domenici and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores C.G. Jung's complex relationship with Friedrich Nietzsche through the lens of the so-called 'visionary' literary tradition. The book connects Jung's experience of the posthumously published Liber Novus (The Red Book) with his own (mis)understanding of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, and formulates the hypothesis of Jung considering Zarathustra as Nietzsche's Liber Novus –– both works being regarded by Jung as 'visionary' experiences. After exploring some 'visionary' authors often compared by Jung to Nietzsche (Goethe, Hölderlin, Spitteler, F. T. Vischer), the book focuses upon Nietzsche and Jung exclusively. It analyses stylistic similarities, as well as explicit references to Nietzsche and Zarathustra in Liber Novus, drawing on Jung's annotations in his own copy of Zarathustra. The book then uses Liber Novus as a prism to contextualize and understand Jung's five-year seminar on Zarathustra: all the nuances of Jung's interpretation of Zarathustra can be fully explained, only when compared with Liber Novus and its symbology. One of the main topics of the book concerns the figure of 'Christ' and Nietzsche's and Jung's understandings of the 'death of God.'

Author : Paul S. Loeb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139486446
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra written by Paul S. Loeb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a fresh account of the relation between the book's literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book's narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence. Loeb shows how Nietzsche constructed a unified and complete plot in which the protagonist dies, experiences a deathbed revelation of his endlessly repeating life, and then returns to his identical life so as to recollect this revelation and gain a power over time that advances him beyond the human. Through close textual analysis and careful attention to Nietzsche's use of Platonic, biblical, and Wagnerian themes, Loeb explains how this novel design is the key to solving the many riddles of Thus Spoke Zarathustra - including its controversial fourth part, its obscure concept of the Übermensch, and its relation to Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals.

Author : T. K. Seung
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739158236
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul written by T. K. Seung and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number of thematic contradictions. The standard approach has been a method of selective reading, that is, most critics select a few brilliant passages for edification and ignore the rest. This approach has turned Nietzsche's text into a collection of disjointed fragments. Going against this prevalent approach, T.K. Seung presents the first unified reading of the whole book. He reads it as the record of Zarathustra's epic journey to find spiritual values in the secular world. The alleged thematic contradictions of the text are shown to indicate the turns and twists that are dictated by the hero's epic battle against his formidable opponent. His heroic struggle is eventually resolved by the power of a pantheistic nature-religion. Thus Nietzsche's ostensibly atheistic work turns out to be a highly religious text. The author uncovers this epic plot by reading Nietzsche's text as a baffling series of riddles and puzzles. Hence his reading is not only edifying but also breathtaking. In this unprecedented enterprise, the author takes a complex interdisciplinary approach, engaging the five disciplines of philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary analysis, and cultural history.

Author : Edmond Bordeaux Székely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essene Teachings of Zarathustra written by Edmond Bordeaux Székely and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092783
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zarathustra's Secret written by Joachim Köhler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking biography, the author seeks to understand Nietzsche's philosophy through a reconstruction of his inner life. "Briskly written . . . almost a philosophical detective story."--"Volksblatt." 43 illustrations.

Author : Khosro Khazai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782930473000
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gathas written by Khosro Khazai and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: