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Book SynopsisIn arguing that Nietzsche's
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy.
Trade Review"This is an original and exciting interpretation of Nietzsche's most difficult, hermetic, and influential book. The interpretation is carefully articulated, moreover, in such a way that it situates
Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the center of Nietzsche's life and career. The reader thus gains not only a wealth of unprecedented insights into the structure and flow of
Zarathustra, but also comes to appreciate it within the context of Nietzsche's greatest philosophical challenge—his confrontation with modernity, in which he attempts to take the measure of all things modern." -- Daniel Conway * Pennsylvania State University *
"Robert Gooding-Williams's book is a dazzling achievement....elegant, erudite, and imaginative..." --
ConstellationsTable of ContentsIntroduction: explaining the possibility of modernism 1. Philosophizing with a stammer 2. Incipit Zarathustra: a reading of 'Zarathustra's Prologue' 3. Dionysus, the German Nation, and the body 4. Cartesian subjects, prometheam heroes, and the sublime 5. Eternal recurrence, acts I and II 6. Eternal recurrence, act III Notes Bibliography Index.
