Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner: Their Spinozan Epics of Love and Power

by T.K. Seung

Book Overview

The author reads Goethe's Faust as the first epic written under Spinoza's influence. He shows how its thematic development is governed by Spinoza's pantheistic naturalism. He further contends that Wagner and Nietzsche have tried to surpass their mentor Goethe's work by writing their own Spinozan epics of love and power in The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These Spinozan epics are designed to succeed the Christian epics in the Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739111280
• ISBN13: 9780739111284
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"