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 10 - Joyful Transhumanism
Love and Eternal Recurrence in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2022
- 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
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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- Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra'A Critical Guide, pp. 205 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022