Word: zarathustra
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Dates: during 1909-1909
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...LECTURES ON THE CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DRAMA. "Friedrich Nietzsche. II. Zarathustra." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
Nietzsche must be understood as the expression of the present mental crisis in Germany. His greatest work is "Zarathustra." Upon its appearance he was acclaimed by the noisy multitude as a Messiah, although his mission is that of a John the Baptist. He marks the turning point at an exceedingly low epoch, toward an as yet unknown future. This work is aphoristic in style, and is the result of his spiritual creative faculty...
Because the quintessential stamp, which his works possess by virtue of the curiously rhetorical style and of the magic symbolism of sound, cannot be in any way represented in the English language, as was shown by Professor Kuehnemann, who read two highly impressive passages from "Zarathustra," it is absolutely necessary to be able to approach these ideas in their original medium of language...