by Friedrich Nietzsche · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300412
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«Así habló Zaratustra» is the philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Ediciones Orbis, S.A. in hardback (378 pages, in Spanish).
Starting from the semi-legendary figure of Zaratustra, a Persian sage of the 6th century BC, Nietzsche composes a philosophical narrative that combines storytelling, lyricism and reflection. In it he unfolds the great axes of his thought: the overman, the death of God, the will to power and the eternal return of the identical.
This edition belongs to the Historia Universal de la Literatura collection (no. 16), with a translation by Juan Carlos García Borrón; the German original, Also sprach Zarathustra, was published in 1883.
It is aimed at those interested in 19th-century philosophy and the great classics of Western thought.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
