What makes Nietzsche, Nietzsche? In *The Shortest Shadow*, Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupancic challenges the fashionable appropriation that views Nietzsche as a philosopher “ahead of his time,” but whose moment has finally arrived. Zupancic argues that the quintessential Nietzschean quality is precisely his lack of being “fashionable,” of not being so “popular” even in his own era.
To renew Nietzsche within a context where his thought prevails on its own merits, Zupancic analyzes two fundamental aspects of his philosophy. In the first part, she revisits Nietzschean themes such as the declaration of the death of God, the ascetic ideal, and nihilism—ideas that apply to our postmodern condition. In the second part, she returns to the Nietzschean figure of midday—the moment of “the shortest shadow”—and its consequences for the notion of truth. An essential book in which Nietzsch...read more
