Book contents
- Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts, Translations, and References
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Laughter As Weapon
- Chapter 2 Philosophy As a Way of Life in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Chapter 3 What Makes the Affirmation of Life Difficult?
- Chapter 4 Zarathustra’s Response to Schopenhauer
- Chapter 5 Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Chapter 6 Nietzsche’s Solution to the Philosophical Problem of Change
- Chapter 7 Zarathustra’s Moral Psychology
- Chapter 8 Zarathustra’s Great Contempt
- Chapter 9 The Great Politics of Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Chapter 10 Joyful Transhumanism
- Chapter 11 Nietzsche on the Re-naturalization of Humanity in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 1 - Laughter As Weapon
Parody and Satire in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
Book contents
- Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts, Translations, and References
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Laughter As Weapon
- Chapter 2 Philosophy As a Way of Life in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Chapter 3 What Makes the Affirmation of Life Difficult?
- Chapter 4 Zarathustra’s Response to Schopenhauer
- Chapter 5 Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Chapter 6 Nietzsche’s Solution to the Philosophical Problem of Change
- Chapter 7 Zarathustra’s Moral Psychology
- Chapter 8 Zarathustra’s Great Contempt
- Chapter 9 The Great Politics of Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Chapter 10 Joyful Transhumanism
- Chapter 11 Nietzsche on the Re-naturalization of Humanity in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
Scholars have heeded Nietzsche’s instruction that we should think of TSZ as a kind of parody, but there has been a great deal of uncertainty about what exactly he means by this. Zavatta helpfully clears up the debate by surveying the genres of literary and musical parody prior to Nietzsche’s time and showing how he appropriated these genres in TSZ so as to invent a new form of philosophical critique.
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- Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra'A Critical Guide, pp. 15 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022