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 andmoves 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.
