Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism

by Robert Gooding-Williams

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.

Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self-styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity (the repressive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732949
• ISBN13: 9780804732949
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"