The Zarathustra Project
Last semester we studied substantial excerpts from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra . Our professor suggested that a good way of getting an understanding of the book is to read one of its 80 or so short chapters a day and think about it for a half hour or so. I kind of liked the idea, hence this project. I plan to do a post on this blog on every chapter after reading it and thinking about it a bit. I have not read a lot of Nietzsche first hand, but have read some of Walter Kaufman's book, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Anti-Christ . I have also read Stephen Hicks's short little book, Nietzsche and the Nazis . I have just started reading George P. Grant's Time as History which are his Nietzsche lectures. There is a further essay on Nietzsche in his book, Technology and Justice . I own two different translations of Thus Spoke Zarathustra - the Kaufman translation and the R.J. Hollingdale translation. In our readings last semester I went back ...