On other ways of understanding beyond Human in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra

Abstract

This paper focuses on the analysis of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. Our main hypothesis is that the style of Nietzsche’s work performatively thematizes a conception of human existence as being originally constituted by animality because Nietzsche’s main work demands an understanding that involves the body itself in order to experience the thought of eternal recurrence. I try to demonstrate, therefore, that Nietzsche’s demand claims —in order to correctly interpretate this particular type of understanding— a conception of thought that is not entirely human but also animal and whose meaning can only be deployed in the encounter of both theoretical notions.