Alle Lust will Ewigkeit

"Liessmann thinks, and he thinks aloud; and there is no one in our republic I would rather listen to." (Michael Köhlmeier) In his new book, the philosopher brings twelve central questions from Nietzsche's 'Zarathustra' into the present.

The central questions of human life within the twelve midnight chimes: Nietzsche's "O Man! Take heed!" approaches the abyss of humanity with dark thoughts, exploring the unconscious depths of our feelings and affects, and the unbearable tension between pain and pleasure, between life and death. Konrad Paul Liessmann demonstrates the central dimension this mysterious text holds for our political and cultural self-understanding by surprisingly and provocatively extending Nietzsche's movements of thought and figures of speech into our present and our lives – from midnight to eternity.