Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra - The Tragic Buffoon

List of contents

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

About the author

Francesca Cauchi

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Francesca Cauchi, Cauchi Francesca
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138089365
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08936-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy; Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, c 1800 to c 1900, Christianity, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism