At issue are concerns surrounding the extension of Artificial Intelligence into realms that were assumed to be strictly human, such as large language models and text-to-image art. It’s no exaggeration to say that a revolution is going on with AI and Machine Learning tools. Overall, though, all the essays also provide a good framework for our current technological panorama. See, for example, Loeb’s contribution, which argues that Thus Spoke Zarathustra presents Nietzsche’s answer to the ancient problem of change.Ĭhapters 3 through 6, in particular-which detail Nietzsche’s emphasis on the difficulty of affirming life Nietzsche’s critique of Schopenhauer’s central concept of the will and the place of Nietzsche’s philosophy in the contemporary debate on naturalism-may surprise some readers, given the usual assumption today that Nietzsche’s book is not relevant to current philosophical discourse. This book is not only a source of inspiration to artists and filmmakers, but also a work with deep philosophical heft. Each piece deserves to be read carefully because it testifies to the fecund and transformative potential of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

I won’t summarize the eleven pieces that comprise this guide, but please see the admirable introduction by the editors Keith Ansell-Pearson and Paul S.

The new critical guide from Cambridge University Press, Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’: A Critical Guide, poses a challenge to this consensus.The eleven essays that make up the work help us engage with Nietzsche’s philosophical vision and bring to light dimensions of the work that elucidate the timely question of what our species is creating beyond itself. Nietzsche considered his philosophical novel, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, his masterwork, but recently it has largely been ignored by philosophical scholars.

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