13 - On Despisers of the Body, Part 1

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Reader's Guide by Alex Drake

Aug 6, 201600:40:28Society & Culture

Based on the translation by Graham Parkes - Alex discusses the Nietzschean view of language and reason, and how when humans believe too much in language and the categories of reason, we tend to mummify the living, moving...

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