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ISBN13:9781399504324
ISBN10:13995043211
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:176 pages
Size:216x138 mm
Language:English
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Zarathustra's Moral Tyranny

Spectres of Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach
 
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Short description:

In this reading of Nietzsche?s most elusive work, Francesca Cauchi claims that Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a moral polemic, one grounded in its own set of moral values that posits its own moral goal - the self-overcoming of Christian morality through the creation of new values.

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By way of a sustained interrogation of Zarathustra?s doctrine of self-overcoming, Francesca Cauchi lays bare the asceticism underlying the prescriptive injunctions set forth in the first two parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These injunctions fall under three heads: self-legislation, self-denial and self-sacrifice, which are shown to bear striking affinities with concepts first formulated by Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach. In Cauchi?s new reading, the Kantian rational will, the Hegelian ?labour of the negative? and Feuerbach?s indivisible trinity of love, sacrifice and suffering are seen to resurface in Zarathustra as the agents of a ferocious and self-eviscerating doctrine of self-overcoming that exhibits all the attributes of a moral tyranny.

Table of Contents:
IntroductionThe naturalist-normative problemThe morality problemMax Stirner and the ?tyranny of mind?Kant, Hegel, and Feuerbach1. Nietzsche?s Ascetic MoralityPitting a ?morality of reason? against the Christian morality of feeling Nietzsche?s self-eviscerating ?morality of sacrifice?Do ?free-spirited moralists? have the right to inflict their cruelty on others? Austerity and artifice2. The Kantian Rational Will and the Tyranny of Self-OvercomingAutonomy and universalityCreator-destroyers and hammer-wielding legislators Shattering the Christian table of valuesErkenntniss and the hard labour of reorienting the affectsReverence and martyrdom: willing the Übermensch3. Hegel?s ?Labour of the Negative? and the Lacerations of Self-NegationAffirmative negation and Deleuzian derisionSpirit?s ?labour of the negative?Practical freedom and the planting of thought into the passionsSpirit?s vicious cycle of bitter deaths and interminable resurrections4. The Bitter Cup of Pure Love: Feuerbach and ZarathustraReclaiming the ?divine? powers of human greatnessLove as a human absoluteChrist?s Passion and Zarathustra?s sacrificial loveAn excursus on self-love and the I and thou of compassionConclusionZarathustra?s violent rhetoric of truth incorporationZarathustra?s moral tyrannyBibliographyIndex