Returning to Sils-Maria

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Returning to Sils-Maria is a section-by-section commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra. Greg Whitlock returns to Nietzsche's text during the centennial years of its creation (1883-85) to argue that Zarathustra is not a book of the past or present, but of the future. He highlights Nietzsche's visions of the fanatics, demagogues, true believers, men of action and prophets who have come to populate the 20th-century human landscape. Zarathustra's teachings are interpreted as riddles whose solutions are harbingers of mankind's fate. Whitlock thereby creates a refreshing and new image of Nietzsche and Zarathustra in the course of his comments.

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«Greg Whitlock's 'Return to Sils-Maria' is arguably the best commentary on Nietzsche's 'Also sprach Zarathustra' to appear in English. ... Nietzsche scholars will find this book useful for several reasons. First, this book is a 'commentary' in the classic sense. Whitlock seems more interested in explaining Nietzsche's book than in using 'Zarathustra' to grind his own axe... Second, Whitlock did his homework. For example, he supplies the book, chapter, and verse to each of the Biblical allusions that occur in 'Zarathustra'. ... Finally, Whitlock consistently decodes the symbolism in Zarathustra in a way that allows scholars to see the systematic points that Nietzsche makes by means of images. ...(Whitlock's) important commentary leads the reader to the most important questions concerning 'Zarathustra' and the whole of Nietzsche's work.» (David M. Parry, Canadian Philosophical Reviews)

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