ABSTRACT

With the invocation in ‘Der Genesende’, the learning of song, and the encounter with Midnight in ‘Das andere Tanzlied’, the action of Nietzsche’s book is transposed onto a new plane. As he recovers his health, we see a change in Zarathustra’s outward demeanour: his words, which have so far acted divisively, polarizing the elements of thought and experience, are now to bring about a new sense of unity between things formerly separated and deliver the final verdict of unconditional assent.