TY - BOOK ID - 2874498 TI - Zarathustra's Dionysian modernism AU - Gooding-Williams, Robert AU - Stanford University Press PY - 2001 VL - *1 SN - 0804732949 0804732957 DB - UniCat KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2874498 AB - The author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy, arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism. Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self-styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity (the repressive culture of the 'last man') by creating new values. By showing how Zarathustra can become a creator of new values, notwithstanding the forces that hinder his will to innovate, Nietzsche answers the skeptic who proclaims that new-values creation is impossible. Zarathustra is a story of repeated clashes between Zarathustra's avant-garde, modernist intentions and figures of doubt who condemn those intentions. ER -