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Chapter 10 - Joyful Transhumanism

Love and Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Gabriel Zamosc
Edited by
Keith Ansell-Pearson  and
Paul S. Loeb
Keith Ansell-Pearson
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Paul S. Loeb
Affiliation:
University of Puget Sound, Washington
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Summary

Gabriel Zamosc argues that a proper understanding of TSZ will help to advance the contemporary transhumanist movement that often claims to be inspired by Nietzsche’s philosophy of the Übermensch. According to Zamosc, Zarathustra warns us against falsely or sickly transcendent versions of his superhuman ideal that are actually a veiled hatred of our unchangeable human-all-too-human past. Indeed, this is why he teaches eternal recurrence, in order to show us how to love this past as an embodiment of our creative will to power. The transhumanist movement must therefore incorporate this doctrine so as to secure a joyful version of itself that embraces our transitional destiny of forever remaining mere bridges to the superhuman.

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transhumanismsuperhumanloveeternal recurrencewill to powerjoy
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Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
A Critical Guide
 , pp. 205 - 224
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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