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Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner
Their Spinozan Epics of Love and Power
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2006
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The author reads Goethe's Faust as the first epic written under Spinoza's influence. He shows how its thematic development is governed by Spinoza's pantheistic naturalism. He further contends that Wagner and Nietzsche have tried to surpass their mentor Goethe's work by writing their own Spinozan epics of love and power in The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These Spinozan epics are designed to succeed the Christian epics in the Western literary tradition. Whereas the Christian epics dared to groom human beings for their destiny in the supernatural world, the Spinozan epics try to reinstate humanity as the children of Mother Nature and overcome their alienation from the natural world, which had been dictated by the long reign of Christianity. However, it has been well noted that none of these new epics seems to hang together thematically as a coherent work. By his Spinozan reading, the author not only demonstrates the thematic unity of each of them singly, but further illustrates their thematic relation with each other.
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Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1127-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5567-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
377
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1 The Superman in Estrangement (Faust, Prologue and Part One) No access Pages 1 - 47
2 The Superman in Fantasy (Faust, Part Two, Acts 1-3) No access Pages 48 - 89
3 The Superman in Defiance (Faust, Part Two, Acts 4-5) No access Pages 90 - 117
4 Redemption of the Superman (Faust, Epilogue) No access Pages 118 - 162
5 Nietzsche's Superman (Zarathustra, Prologue and Part One) No access Pages 163 - 180
6 The Suffering Soul (Zarathustra, Part Two) No access Pages 181 - 205
7 The Twofold Self (Zarathustra, Part Three) No access Pages 206 - 232
8 The Dionysian Redemption (Zarathustra, Part Four) No access Pages 233 - 268
9 Mystical Naturalism (from Goethe to Nietzsche) No access Pages 269 - 297
10 Wagner's Superhero (The Ring of the Nibelung) No access Pages 298 - 367
