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author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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description: prophetic, poetic book in which zarathustra proclaims themes like overman, eternal recurrence, and critique of herd morality.
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title: Thus Spake Zarathustra
year: 1883
authors: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Zarathustra attacks inherited categories of good and evil and asks how new values can be created. The overman names a direction of self-overcoming rather than a rule for conventional moral conduct. The eternal recurrence tests whether one could affirm a life in every detail.