The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche’s Truth

In
The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche’s Truth
Daniel T. O'Hara traces critically the current reception and translation of Nietzsche’s corpus and then some of Nietzsche’s boldest textual experiments in the art of reading as a way of life, including those in
The Birth of Tragedy ,
The Gay Science ,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra ,
The Anti-Christ , and
Ecce Homo . The shape of this critical tracing begins, however, in the middle of his career with
The Gay Science
and moves on to
Thus Spoke Zarathustra , which Nietzsche believed was the central work of his life. It then revalues
Ecce Homo , Nietzsche’s final autobiographical statement about his life and career, and concludes with a comparative analysis of two works from the beginning and end of that career: respectively,
The Birth of Tragedy
and
The Anti-Christ . O'Hara’s highly original study, which uses Badiou’s theory of the truth-event as a guide, will surely provoke larger conversations across many disciplines.