The Poetry of Being: Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1.3 (part 2)

Athens Corner

This is the trailer of a discussion for the series I'm doing on the entire text of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (the entire discussion is available on my AthensCorner.com website for subscribers). At issue here is Zarathustra's turn from the critique of the hinterworldly to the metaphysical concept of "being" and, for Zarathustra, the psychology at the core of both (i.e. all gods and all traditional understandings of philosophy). In his turn toward this psychological foundation for all grounding concepts, Zarathustra broaches the all-important topic of poetry that becomes thematic in the text and crucial for understanding Zarathustra and his political project.