Zarathustra's Moral Tyranny: Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach

By way of a sustained interrogation of Zarathustra’s doctrine of self-overcoming, Francesca Cauchi lays bare the asceticism underlying the prescriptive injunctions set forth in the first two parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These injunctions fall under three heads: self-legislation, self-denial and self-sacrifice, which are shown to bear striking affinities with concepts first formulated by Kant, Hegel and Feuerbach. In Cauchi’s new reading, the Kantian rational will, the Hegelian ‘labour o...