The art of reading as a way of life
Subtitle: on Nietzsche's truth
By: Daniel T. O'Hara.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780810126220
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Truth; Criticism
Description: "In The Art of Reading as a way of Life, Daniel T. O'Hara traces the current reception and translation of Nietzsche's corpus and analyzes some of Nietzsche's boldest textual experiments. O'Hara begins in the middle of Nietzsche's career with The Gay Science and moves on to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which Nietzsche believed was the central work of his life. He then reevaluates Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's final autobiographical statement about his life and career, before concluding with a comparative analysis of two works from the beginning and end of that career, The Birth of Tragedy and The Anti-Christ. O'Hara's highly original study, which uses Badiou's theory of the truth-event as a guide, will surely provoke larger conversations across many disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of reading as a way of life: an introduction to Nietzsche's truth; title: Experiments in creative reading: the Cambridge Nietzsche; title: Nietzsche's passion in The gay science: an experiment in creative reading; title: Nietzsche's book for all and none: the singularity of Thus spoke Zarathustra; title: Ecce homo: Nietzsche's two natures; title: Nietzsche's critical vortex: on the global tragedy of theoretical man.