Bathroom-Wall Nietzsche

Martin translated every word of this book except one. The word is Übermensch, the announcement Zarathustra came down the mountain to deliver, and the most bumper-stickered idea Nietzsche ever had; it has been scrawled on bathroom walls for a century. Martin walks through what the standard English renderings, superman above all, did to the concept, and why he decided the only honest translation was none at all. Then he restores what the word actually asks of a human being. His best example of the type lived in the Renaissance, and you already know the name. The most quoted lines in Nietzsche, read as if for the first time.