Reading beyond Community: D. F. Strauss's Das Leben Jesu and Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra

Author: Cooper, Ian

Source: The Modern Language Review, Volume 103, Number 2, 1 April 2008 , pp. 456-470(15)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

While Nietzsche's relationship to D. F. Strauss has generally been approached in terms of Nietzsche's attack on Strauss, this article presents a wider intellectual-historical perspective to show that both are part of the philosophical and theological crisis of post-Hegelianism. A study of their major works Das Leben Jesu and Also sprach Zarathustra reveals striking similarities in the problems of language and representation faced by both thinkers.

Keywords: Nietzsche; D. F. Strauss; post-Hegelianism; Das Leben Jesu; Also sprach Zarathustra; language; representation

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Selwyn College, Cambridge

Publication date: 2008-04-01

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