Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (991 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804732957 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This is an original and exciting interpretation of Nietzsche's most difficult, hermetic, and influential book. The reader thus gains not only a wealth of unprecedented insights into the structure and flow of Zarathustra, but also comes to appreciate it within the context of Nietzsche's greatest philosophical challenge—his confrontation with modernity, in which he attempts to take the measure of all things modern."—Daniel Conway, Pennsylvania State University. The interpretation is carefully articulated, moreover, in such a way that it situates Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the center of Nietzsche's life and career
In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism—that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values—the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self-styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity (the repressive culture of the "last man") by creating new values. Showing how parody, irony, and plot organization frame that explanation, he also demonstrates the central significance of Zarathustra's speeches on the body and the will to power. He also proposes an original interpretation of the thought of eternal recurrence (according to Nietzsche, the "fun