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Zarathustra's Dionysian modernism / Robert Gooding-Williams.
LIBRA B3313.A473 G66 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gooding-Williams, Robert.
- Series:
- Atopia (Stanford, Calif.)
- Atopia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Also sprach Zarathustra.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Physical Description:
- x, 420 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In 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.
- Contents:
- Philosophizing with a stammer
- Incipit Zarathustra: a reading of "Zarathustra's prologue"
- Dionysus, the German nation, and the body
- Cartesian subjects, Promethean heroes, and the sublime
- Eternal recurrence, acts I and II
- Eternal recurrence, Act III.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-404) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804732949
- 0804732957
- OCLC:
- 45603973
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