Redeeming Nietzsche

On the Piety of Unbelief

Giles Fraser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2002
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-27291-9 (ISBN)

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While the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognised and understood. Fraser traces the failures of Nietzsche's salvation theology to an inability to face the depths of human suffering.

Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised. Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognized and rarely understood. Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual theologian in the most vociferous of atheists.
Giles Fraser demonstrates that although Nietzsche rejected God, he remained obsessed with the question of human salvation. Examining his accounts of art, truth, morality and eternity, Nietzsche's thought is revealed to be

Giles Fraser is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham College, University of Oxford. He is also the Vicar of Putney.

Acknowledgements 1. Holy Nietzsche 2. The Orientation of Nietzsche's Question of God 3. Facing the Truth, Outfacing the Horror 4. Redeeming Redemption 5. Parables of Innocence and Judgement 6. Salvation, Kitsch and the Denial of Shit 7. Sacrifice and the Logic of Exclusion 8. A Fear of the Other

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.1.2002
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-415-27291-2 / 0415272912
ISBN-13	978-0-415-27291-9 / 9780415272919
Zustand	Neuware