This book is not only a source of inspiration to artists and filmmakers, but also a work with deep philosophical heft. Each piece deserves to be read carefully because it testifies to the fecund and transformative potential of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I won’t summarize the eleven pieces that comprise this guide, but please see the admirable introduction by the editors Keith Ansell-Pearson and Paul S. The new critical guide from Cambridge University Press, Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’: A Critical Guide, poses a challenge to this consensus.The eleven essays that make up the work help us engage with Nietzsche’s philosophical vision and bring to light dimensions of the work that elucidate the timely question of what our species is creating beyond itself. Nietzsche considered his philosophical novel, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, his masterwork, but recently it has largely been ignored by philosophical scholars.
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