Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra

<p>This study first published in 1998 makes a lively and welcome contribution to the critical analysis of Nietzsche’s seminal classic <i>This Spoke Zarathustra</i>. Through a close textual reading of the neglected and ill-understood part four of the text the author seeks to show that Nietzsche’s project of self-overcoming is a failure. Offering herself as a philosopher-priestess of the wisdom of pessimism Francesca Cauchi invokes a complex of responses in the reader providing a necessary challenge to any and all advocates of life.</p>