Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism

Author	Robert Gooding-Williams
Format	Softcover
ISBN	9780804732956
Publication Date	2001-06-11
Publisher	Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press

The author argues that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism- that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values. He also shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. His interpretation places the work at the center of Nietzsche's life and career.

In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism-that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values-the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. His interpretation also places the work at the center of Nietzsche's life and career.