Zarathustra and the ethical ideal : timely meditations on philosophy / Robert H. Cousineau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cousineau, Robert Henri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Also sprach Zarathustra.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, thematizing especially laughter, fear, awe and hope. The book invites us to rethink how to overcome some relevant impasses of contemporary analytic, hermeneutic and (post)deconstructionist thought. The author seeks the dialogue with the texts and the reader and gradually brings to the fore the ethical. In the words of the author: Most works on Nietzsche talk about him, few address him, much less invite the reader to

Contents:

ZARATHUSTRA AND THE ETHICAL IDEAL TIMELY MEDITATIONS ON PHILOSOPHY; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The itinerary; An attunement; PART ONE. UNDERWAY TO ZARATHUSTRA THE PROTO-LOGUE; CHAPTER ONE. The question and quest of human existence; CHAPTER TWO. Living with the strange and the familiar; Towards an aesthetic phenomenon; Loving the strange; Unwritten tablets; A protogrammar; CHAPTER THREE. Laughter and fear A symbiotic text of existence; THE INTERLUDE A pro-logue to Zarathustra; Zarathustra's Prologue; On the three Metamorphoses

PART TWO. ZARATHUSTRA'S WORDCHAPTER FOUR. The analogue; On the way of the creator; The East speaks; CHAPTER FIVE. The unsaid; The wordless word; CHAPTER SIX. The logos; Thinking dangerously; A Remaining Question; The inherent hermeneutic; The sign; PART THREE. DIALOGUE; CHAPTER SEVEN. Ontological dialogue; The Authentic Individual; The Will to Power; CHAPTER EIGHT. Movement of the spirit; After, and beyond, morality; Formulae as Action; AN EPILOGUE Nietzsche's and Heidegger's Stance; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS; NOTES; INDEX OF TEXTS; INDEX OF NAMES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42400-2

9786613424006

90-272-7431-2

OCLC:

774384453