Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" and Political Thought

This volume contributes to the debate over Nietzsche's political thought through an analysis of the fundamental symbols and the narrative progression of Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".

---

Dr. Stewart identifies nausea as the central metaphor of Zarathustra, a nausea that accompanies a contempt for mediocrity, for democratic systems, indeed for bourgeois existence in general; but it is a nausea that more centrally accompanies Nietzsche's perspectivism. Thus, it is the nausea that occurs in the face of the chaotic and indeterminate character of the universe and of human existence.