17 - On Reading and Writing

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Reader's Guide by Alex Drake

Feb 23, 201700:54:13Society & Culture

Based on the translation by Graham Parkes - Nietzsche takes a brief pause from demolishing old idols to give us some insight on how he writes, and how we should be reading him. He also transitions into some more of the p...

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