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Peter Wessel Zapffe

The Last Messiah

The Last Messiah — cover
★★★★★
Author
Peter Wessel Zapffe
First Published
1933
Pages
20
Type
Digital
Language
English
Status
Read
Genre
Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, Psychology, Theory, Poetry, Literature
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The Last Messiah is a phenomenal essay by the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe. In it, the philosopher reimagines the human condition as a perpetual state in which the human organism has evolved excessively and lives beyond its own biological needs due to its oversized and excessive brain.