Jan 4, 2010
[In the following essay Conway offers a deconstructionist analysis of Thus Spake Zarathustra.]
Deconstruction presupposes the critic's insight into the contingency of the construction of authority. By exposing the empowering presuppositions of the author's discourse, deconstruction effectively discredits any claim to an epistemically privileged authority. But does deconstruction adequately provide for the author's own insight into the construction of textual authority? How does deconstruction (or any other self-conscious interpretative strategy) deal with a text whose textuality presupposes the kind of indeterminacy and self-referentiality upon which deconstruction operates? These questions are especially central to an engagement with Nietzsche's most forbidding book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Rather than deny or ignore the contingency of his own textual authority, Nietzsche anticipates the...
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