Literary Cynicism in Nietzsche

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• Daniel S. Mayfield (FU Berlin)
• Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:30
• Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Marie Kolkenbrock.

The focus of this talk is the description and analysis of cynicism in Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also with recourse to the Posthumous Fragments from 1884-1889.

It is part of the work in progress on the speaker’s PhD project “Literary Cynicism”, which traces cynicism in key texts of Western literature since the Renaissance and into the beginnings of the twentieth century.

This talk is part of the German Graduate Research Seminar series.

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• Department of German and Dutch
• German Graduate Research Seminar
• Grad Seminar Rm, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg., Sidgwick Site

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