Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Omar El Akkad

Canongate

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. This is a book for those that have tired of moral emptiness. This is a book for everyone who wants something better. ...

Gillian Anderson

Bloomsbury

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Dan Wang

Penguin

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James Marriott

Bodley Head

The world we knew is passing away and nothing will ever be the same again. Welcome to the post-literate society. Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them. Addictive digital entertainment technologies ha...

Maya Jordan

Penguin

"A curse on being ordinary! Wrong is not her name. Her name is Maya Jordan. She is a noisy woman and we should fear her"--Michael SheenA sharply funny, furious and rousing account of a life lived in triumphant opposition to the limitations and systemic inequalities of a working-class woman's life. Underestimated and overlooked at each stage and age, Maya Jordan's ambition and r...

Mary Claire Haver

V

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Oxford Worlds Classics

`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...' Nietzsche intended Twilight of the Idols to serve as a short introduction to his phil...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual?s ?will to power?. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Phoenix

In this seminal 1886 text Nietzsche challenges the orthodox notions of good and evil, offering a radical value system that clashes with Christian tradition and democratic principles - an attack on the framework of Western thought. With concepts such as master-slave morality, Nietzsche casts the human condition in a fresh light, inviting readers to re-evaluate their understandin...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin

A new translation of Nietzsche's seminal work by a prize-winning translator of W. G. Sebald, Goethe, Rilke, Herta Mu¨ller, and Elfriede Jelinek.In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche's infamous protagonist sets off on a grand and noble quest to find meaning in a secular world and to live joyfully alongside the knowledge of death. In this new translation by Michael Hulse—the first...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin

Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, The Joyous ScienceNietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies.Throughout history, some ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Penguin Classics

'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?' Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives rea...