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Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner - Their Spinozan Epics of Love and Power (Hardcover)
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Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner - Their Spinozan Epics of Love and Power (Hardcover)
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The author reads Goethe's Faust as the first epic written under
Spinoza's influence. He shows how its thematic development is
governed by Spinoza's pantheistic naturalism. He further contends
that Wagner and Nietzsche have tried to surpass their mentor
Goethe's work by writing their own Spinozan epics of love and power
in The Ring of the Nibelung and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These
Spinozan epics are designed to succeed the Christian epics in the
Western literary tradition. Whereas the Christian epics dared to
groom human beings for their destiny in the supernatural world, the
Spinozan epics try to reinstate humanity as the children of Mother
Nature and overcome their alienation from the natural world, which
had been dictated by the long reign of Christianity. However, it
has been well noted that none of these new epics seems to hang
together thematically as a coherent work. By his Spinozan reading,
the author not only demonstrates the thematic unity of each of them
singly, but further illustrates their thematic relation with each
other.
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