Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Matthew Meyer is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of Scranton, USA. He is the author of Reading Nietzsche Through the Ancients: An Analysis of Becoming, Perspectivism, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction (2014) and Nietzsche's Free-Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading (2019). With Paul Loeb, he is the co-editor of Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method and Aims of Philosophy (2019).

• 1. Introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra 2. The Tragedy and Satyr Play of Zarathustra 3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra I 4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra II 5. Thus Spoke Zarathustra III 6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra IV 7. The Philosophical Significance of Zarathustra Appendix: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Bibliography Index

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra is fascinating and beautiful, but difficult to understand. Matthew Meyer appreciates both the scientific and aesthetic dimensions of Nietzsche's philosophy, and provides a clear and helpful interpretation. He makes a convincing argument that Nietzsche structured Zarathustra like a three-act Greek tragedy followed by a satyr play. Meyer's interpretive insights will advance scholarly understanding of Zarathustra, and his accessible presentation will help ordinary readers better understand Nietzsche's masterpiece." - Neil Sinhababu, National University of Singapore