Zarathustra's Moral Tyranny : : Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach / / Francesca Cauchi.

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• VerfasserIn: Cauchi, Francesca,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Presents Nietzsche’s Zarathustra as a ‘moral tyrant’ whose ethics are more exacting than the Christian morals they are intended to supplantIdentifies and critiques the four key strands of Nietzsche’s ethics of self-overcomingUnmasks the ‘moralism’ behind Nietzsche’s self-professed ‘immoralism’Furthers research on the intellectual parallels between Nietzsche and Kant and between Nietzsche and HegelThe first critical work to discern affinities between Nietzsche and Feuerbach on the subject of love, sacrifice and a higher humanityBy 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. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- 1 Nietzsche’s Ascetic Morality -- 2 The Kantian Rational Will and the Tyranny of Self-Overcoming -- 3 Hegel’s ‘Labour of the Negative’ and the Lacerations of Self-Negation -- 4 The Bitter Cup of Pure Love: Feuerbach and Zarathustra -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index