Nietzsche's Circles and Cycles: The Symbolic Structure of Eternal Recurrence in Thus Spoke Zarathustra

ISBN-13: 9781433180149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str.

Ivan Zhavoronkov

Opis

This book argues that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra employs circular and cyclical symbols to communicate both the life-affirmative and the cosmological aspect of "recurrence" as a unifying idea.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - Circular Symbols and Eternal Recurrence - Analysis of the Circular Images in Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Analysis of the Diurnal Symbols in Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Analysis of the Seasonal Symbols in Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Summary - Notes - Bibliography - Name Index - Subject Index.

O autorze

Ivan Zhavoronkov received his PhD in humanities from York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a Nietzsche scholar and an award-winning Russian and English-Canadian poet and poetic translator. His poetry book Philosophical Stones in Poetical Tones re-imagines major existentialists. He is the translator of The Socio-Cultural and Philosophical Origins of Science by Anatoly Nazirov.