Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra: The Tragic Buffoon

ISBN-13: 9781138089365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 193 str.

Francesca Cauchi

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Francesca Cauchi