Paul S. Loeb is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He is the co-translator and co-editor (with David F. Tinsley) of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in Volumes 7, 14, and 15 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

'It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the challenge this book poses to the standard and currently authoritative interpretations of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Paul Loeb's careful exegesis and persuasive argumentation will oblige most of the leading Nietzsche scholars working today to revisit - and, in many cases, to revise - their interpretations accordingly. An impressive achievement by any measure.' Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University

• Preface; Texts and citations; Introduction: the clue to the riddles; 1. The eternal recurrence of the same; 2. Demon or god?; 3. The dwarf and the gateway; 4. The great noon; 5. The laughing lions; 6. The shepherd and the serpent; 7. Circulus vitiosus deus; 8. Post-Zarathustra; Bibliography; Index.

Paul S. Loeb is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He is the co-translator and co-editor (with David F. Tinsley) of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in Volumes 7, 14, and 15 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

'It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the challenge this book poses to the standard and currently authoritative interpretations of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Paul Loeb's careful exegesis and persuasive argumentation will oblige most of the leading Nietzsche scholars working today to revisit - and, in many cases, to revise - their interpretations accordingly. An impressive achievement by any measure.' Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University

• Preface; Texts and citations; Introduction: the clue to the riddles; 1. The eternal recurrence of the same; 2. Demon or god?; 3. The dwarf and the gateway; 4. The great noon; 5. The laughing lions; 6. The shepherd and the serpent; 7. Circulus vitiosus deus; 8. Post-Zarathustra; Bibliography; Index.

Paul S. Loeb is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He is the co-translator and co-editor (with David F. Tinsley) of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in Volumes 7, 14, and 15 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

'It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the challenge this book poses to the standard and currently authoritative interpretations of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Paul Loeb's careful exegesis and persuasive argumentation will oblige most of the leading Nietzsche scholars working today to revisit - and, in many cases, to revise - their interpretations accordingly. An impressive achievement by any measure.' Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University

• Preface; Texts and citations; Introduction: the clue to the riddles; 1. The eternal recurrence of the same; 2. Demon or god?; 3. The dwarf and the gateway; 4. The great noon; 5. The laughing lions; 6. The shepherd and the serpent; 7. Circulus vitiosus deus; 8. Post-Zarathustra; Bibliography; Index.