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Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal
Timely meditations on philosophy
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 walk with him. It is time for a dialogical itinerary.
[Not in series, 48] 1991. x, 225 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 January 2012
Published online on 13 January 2012
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One. Underway to Zarathustra. The Proto-Logue
- 1. The Question and Quest of Human Existence
- 2. Living with the Strange and the Familiar
- 3. Laughter and Fear. A Symbiotic Text of Existence
- The Interlude. A Pro-Logue to Zarathustra
- Part Two. Zarathustra’s Word
- 4. The Analogue
- 5. The Unsaid
- 6. The Logos
- Part Three. Dialogue
- 7. Ontological Dialogue
- 8. Movement of the Spirit
- An Epilogue. Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s Stance
- Abbrevations
- Notes
- Index of Texts
- Index of Names
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Cited by one other publication
Koerner, Konrad & Kofi K. Saah
1992. Publications received / Ouvrages reçus / Eingegangene schriften. Historiographia Linguistica 19:1 ► pp. 199 ff.
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