The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Matthew Meyer

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The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

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The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s This Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. This is also true of his self-proclaimed magnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work has been widely influential but is still far from being understood. On the one hand, the principal aims and even the genre of Zarathustra remains unclear. On the other hand, the work expresses, in poetic fashion, some of Nietzsche’s most important, controversial, and enigmatic doctrines: the Uebermensch, the eternal recurrence of the same, and the will to power. This guidebook provides an overview and a fresh interpretation of these themes, a chapter-by-chapter reading of the text, and an overarching argument that Zarathustra should be understood as Nietzsche’s own three-act Greek tragedy followed by a satyr play. The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century philosophy, German philosophy, and intellectual history, and suitable for anyone studying Nietzsche’s most famous text for the first time.

Author Biography:

Matthew Meyer is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of Scranton, USA. He is the author of Reading Nietzsche Through the Ancients: An Analysis of Becoming, Perspectivism, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction (2014), and Nietzsche's Free-Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading (2019). With Paul Loeb he is editor of Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method and Aims of Philosophy (2019).

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September 10th, 2024

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