Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra: The Tragic Buffoon

By Francesca Cauchi

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138089478
• ISBN13: 9781138089471
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"