The Close Relationship between Nietzsche's Two Most Important Books

by T. H. Brobjer

Overview

This book studies the close relationship between Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the unfinished four volume Revaluation of All Values that he worked on until shortly before his collapse. It is unlikely that he would have returned to and continued Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but he considered publishing the fourth part (which had not yet been published) as a bridge between Zarathustra and the unfinished Revaluation of All Values. More importantly, during his last years he worked hard on revaluing values, often in line with what he had written in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This present study performs detailed analyses of Nietzsche’s texts and late notes to examine the direction of that unfinished work; it will function as a stimulus to further research on the direction, interpretation and consequences of Nietzsche’s late thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031187315
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	03/29/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Thomas Brobjer is a professor in the Department of the History of Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has written several books on Nietzsche: Nietzsche’s Ethics of Character (1995), Nietzsche and the 'English': The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy (2008), Nietzsche's Philosophical Context: An Intellectual Biography (2008) and Nietzsche’s ‘Ecce Homo’ and the Revaluation of All Values (2021). He has also written a large number of articles on different aspects of Nietzsche’s thought and on his influences, especially emphasizing Nietzsche’s reading and his library. Together with Gregory Moore he has edited the book Nietzsche and Science (2004). He is at present working on different aspects of the late Nietzsche’s thought.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Close Relation between Thus spoke Zarathustra and the Revaluation of All Value.- 2. The Common Origin of Thus spoke Zarathustra and the Revaluation of All Values.- 3. The Role and Nature of Thus spoke Zarathustra (I-III) in Nietzsche’s Corpus.- 4. Values and Revaluations of Values in Thus spoke Zarathustra.- 5. Nietzsche’s Philosophical Plans and Work after Having Finished Zarathustra (I-III).- 6. The Relation of the Fourth Part of Thus spoke Zarathustra to the Rest of the Work and to the Revaluation of All Values.- 7. The Idea of Eternal Recurrence in Zarathustra and in the Revaluation.- 8. The Relation between Thus spoke Zarathustra and The Antichrist .- 9. The Relation between Thus spoke Zarathustra and the Planned The Free Spirit.- 10. The Relation between Thus spoke Zarathustra and the Planned The Immoralist.- 11. The Relation between Thus spoke Zarathustra and the Planned Dionysos philosophos.- Bibliography.