Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra
Subtitle: the Tragic Buffoon
By: Francesca Cauchi
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy -- 10; Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy -- Volume 10
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781315109220
Subjects: PHILOSOPHY; History & Surveys; Modern; Also sprach Zarathustra (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm)
Description: "This study, first published in 1998, makes a lively and welcome contribution to the critical analysis of Nietzsche's seminal classic This Spoke Zarathustra. Through a close textual reading of the neglected and ill-understood part four of the text, the author seeks to show that Nietzsche's project of self-overcoming is a failure. Offering herself as a philosopher-priestess of the wisdom of pessimism, Francesca Cauchi invokes a complex of responses in the reader, providing a necessary challenge to any and all advocates of life."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Epigraph ; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; THE FALL The Parable of the Ropedancer; 1 Realism versus Idealism; 2 Ropedancer as Buffoon ; CONVALESCENCE The Eagle and the Serpent; 3 Cunning Reason and Proud Imagination ; 4 Physicians as Metaphysicians; PILGRIMAGE The Higher Men and Zarathustra's Shadow; 5 The Art of Self-Overcoming; 6 The Decadence of Modernity; 7 The Decadence of Christianity ; APOTHEOSIS The Tragic Buffoon; 8 Ignoble Lies and Insolent Truths; Conclusion; title: Texts and TranslationsBibliography; Index