The Mask of Enlightenment

WARNING

You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com

Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Second Edition
Second Edition

Stanley Rosen; With a new foreword by Michael Allen Gillespie

View Inside Format: Paper
Price: $31.95

YUP

Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase.

Also Available at

Description Reviews

This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic analysis of one of Nietzsche’s most important but least understood works. Stanley Rosen argues that in Zarathustra Nietzsche lays the groundwork for philosophical and political revolution, proposing a change in humanity’s condition that would be achieved by eliminating the decadent existing race and breeding a new race to take its place. Rosen discusses Nietzsche’s systematically duplicitous rhetoric of esoteric messages in Zarathustra, and he places the book in the contexts of Greek, Christian, Enlightenment, and postmodernist thought.

Stanley Rosen is Border Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He is the author of many books including Plato’s Statesman and The Elusiveness of the Ordinary, both published by Yale University Press.

"Rosen’s book represents an important contribution to the discussion of Nietzsche as political philosopher."—Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas, Austin

“The signal and almost unique contribution of Stanley Rosen’s work, The Mask of Enlightenment . . . is a philosophic assessment of [Zarathustra] and Nietzsche’s thought in general.”—Michael Allen Gillespie, from the foreword