Le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche et le style parodique. À propos de l'hyperanthropos de Lucien et du surhomme de Nietzsche

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ID14770838
AutoresBabette Babich (0000-0002-4499-0718, Fordham University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen232
Número4
Páginas81-104
Fecha de publicación2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiogène (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0419-1633 • E-ISSN: 2077-5253
EditorialCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/dio.232.0081
OpenAlexW2006546241
IdiomaFR
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas13

It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’s Übermensch derives from Lucian of Samosata’s hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’s Kataplous – literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey, ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes, into the afterlife. The Kataplous he tyrannos, usually translated Downward Journey or The Tyrant, is a Menippean satire telling the tale of the “overman” who is imagined to be superior to others of “lesser” station in this-worldly life and the same tyrant after his (comically unwilling) transport into the underworld. As a reflection on the life and the death of Zarathustra, this essay also explores the politics of kingship for Empedocles as reformer in terms of Hölderlin’s Death of Empedocles and Nietzsche’s unpublished drafts on the same topic. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche points to a perspective beyond the here and now, beyond the “values” of our all-too-worldly and all-too-human concerns, no matter whether in terms of perceived political/economic advantage, or indeed in the pursuit of more quotidian satisfactions

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