Perspectivism, Tragedy, Comedy, Irony

According to Birth of Tragedy, the art of Tragedy consists not in the dramatization of suffering, but in the portrayal of the illusoriness of Individuality, which includes the illusoriness of the suffering of an individual.  Thus, in #1 of The Gay Science, Nietzsche classifies the Moralist, i. e. the serious teacher of the intrinsic value of the Individual, as an unwitting tragic hero, in a spectacle that is a comedy to those who know better.  Now, The Gay Science anticipates Thus Spoke Zarathustra in three main respects--1. #341 introduces the concept of Eternal Recurrence; 2. #342 introduces the character Zarathustra, under the rubric "The tragedy begins"; and 3. The formulation, in #1, of the principle of Comedy, "the species is everything, one is always none" foreshadows the subtitle of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "A Book for Everyone and No One".  Thus, in The Gay Science, Nietzsche is wrestling with the ambivalence of his next project, and with that of his own writings, in general.  His Perspectivism crystallizes this ambivalence--as the assertion 'Every assertion is an interpretation' demands to be taken seriously, that it self-referentially undermines itself is comic, to which the Russellian reduction to 'logical paradox' hardly does justice.  Now, in #1 of the Preface to The Gay Science, Nietzsche briefly suggests that this Tragicomedy reduces to Parody, though that formulation seems too glib a characterization of the enlightenment and empowerment of Zarathustra's teaching.  So, a less strident characterization of Perspectivism is that it is 'ironic'.