Abstract

Believing that the deconstructive turn has arisen out of a dearth of authentic "analogous thinking-action," Cousineau seeks an existential response and a dialogical relation to Nietzsche, the character Zarathustra, and the text of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Adopting the Heidegger-Derrida propensity to philological analysis while prescinding a negative use of deconstruction, Cousineau has given us a curious, insightful, but often uneven study of Nietzschean themes and language. Early on, Wittgenstein's claim that "Ethics and aesthetics are one" is adopted, but Nietzsche's explicit expression of the same idea is missed even though it is evident in the subsequent discussion.