Presents Nietzsche's Zarathustra as a moral tyrant whose ethics are more exacting than the Christian morals they are intended to supplant Identifies and critiques the four key strands of Nietzsche's ethics of self-overcoming Unmasks the 'moralism' behind Nietzsche's self-professed 'immoralism' Furthers research on the intellectual parallels between Nietzsche and Kant and between Nietzsche and Hegel The first critical work to discern affinities between Nietzsche and Feuerbach on the subject of love, sacrifice and a higher humanity 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, respectively. 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.

About the Author
Francesca Cauchi is an Associate Professor National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She is the author of Zarathustra contra Zarathustra: The Tragic Buffoon (Ashgate, 1998), reissued under the Routledge imprint in September 2018. She has published many articles in peer-review journals including Philological Quarterly, Journal of European Studies and Oxford German Studies.

Reviews
"Francesca Cauchi's highly original rendition of Zarathustra's doctrine of self-overcoming as the interiorisation of the ontological law of becoming is utterly compelling." -Claus-Artur Scheier, Technische Universit t Braunschweig



Book Information
ISBN 9781399504317
Author Francesca Cauchi
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press