Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Name: Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra
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ISBN: 9781107405530

ISBN-10: 110740553X

ISBN-13: 9781107405530

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul S. Loeb

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In this 2010 study of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a fresh account of the relation between the book's literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book's narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal recurrence. Loeb shows how Nietzsche constructed a unified and complete plot in which the protagonist dies, experiences a deathbed revelation of his endlessly repeating life, and then returns to his identical life so as to recollect this revelation and gain a power over time that advances him beyond the human. Through close textual analysis and careful attention to Nietzsche's use of Platonic, biblical, and Wagnerian themes, Loeb…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836



Preface


Texts and citations


Introduction: the clue to the riddles



The eternal recurrence of the same



Demon or god?



The dwarf and the gateway



The great noon



The laughing lions



The shepherd and the serpent



Circulus vitiosus deus



Post-Zarathustra


Bibliography


Index