What are the blissful islands? And where are they? This book takes as its starting-point the chapter called On the Blissful Islands in Part Two of Nietzsche s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and its enigmatic conclusion: The beauty of the Superman came to me as a shadow . From this remarkable and powerful passage, it disengages the Nietzschean idea of the Superman and the Jungian notion of the shadow, moving these concepts into a new, interdisciplinary direction.
In particular, On the Blissful Islands seeks to develop the kind of interpretative approach that...
What are the blissful islands? And where are they? This book takes as its starting-point the chapter called On the Blissful Islands in Part Two of ...