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Speaker Series: Elijah Millgram (University of Utah)
March 4, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Elijah Millgram will give a talk as part of our annual Speaker Series. Reception to follow.
Who Was the Author of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra?
Why would Nietzsche have written a text that presents itself as the
holy scripture of a nonexistent religion? Because Nietzsche could
presume familiarity with the Higher Criticism — the secular Bible
scholarship of his time — he would expect Thus Spoke Zarathustra to
be read as making a point about the sort of person who composes a
religion’s canonical texts. Nietzsche used his parody of a book of
prophesy to pose a problem for his own very ambitious agenda: the task
of ‘philosophers of the future’ is to invent values, but
institutionalizing those values is bound to have perverse
consequences.
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