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Zarathustra’s Animals: Lessons in Environmental Aesthetics
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 51, Number 1, March 2018
- pp. 1-18
- 10.1353/mos.2018.0001
- Article
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Abstract:
By way of an examination of what Nietzsche’s Zarathustra learns from his animal companions, this essay argues that the fundamental thought of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the thought of eternal recurrence, cultivates an aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment; hence, Nietzsche’s contribution to the field of environmental aesthetics.