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.
ISBN: | 9781138089365 |
Publication date: | 11th August 2017 |
Author: | Francesca Cauchi |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 198 pages |
Series: | Routledge Library Editions: Continental Philosophy |
Genres: |
Phenomenology and Existentialism Christianity Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Structuralism and Post-structuralism Ethics and moral philosophy |