Nietzsche and The antichrist : religion, politics, and culture in late modernity / edited by Daniel Conway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conway, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Antichrist.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Antichrist (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

xiii, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Nietzsche regarded The Antichrist, along with Zarathustra, as his most important work. In it he outlined many epoch-defining ideas, including his dawning realisation of the 'death of God' and the inception of a new, post-moral epoch in Western history. He called the work 'a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed'.One certainly need not share Nietzsche's estimation of his achievement in The Antichrist to conclude that there is something significant going on in this work. Indeed, even if Nietzsche overestimated its transformative power, it would be valuable nonetheless to have a clearer sense of why he thought so highly of this particular book, which is something of an outlier in his oeuvre. Until now, there has been no book that attempts to account with philosophical precision for the multiple themes addressed in this difficult and complex work.

Contents:

A revived God in The antichrist?: Nietzsche and the sacralization of natural life / Lawrence J. Hatab

History, nature, and the "genetic fallacy" in The antichrist's revaluation of values / Tom Stern

Comparative religion in The antichrist: pastiche, subversion, cultural intervention / Antoine Panaïoti

Nietzsche's antichristian ethics: Renaissance Virtù and the project of reevaluation / David Owen

Nietzsche's critique of Kant's priestly philosophy / Paul S. Loeb

Nietzsche's quest for the historical Jesus / Anthony K. Jensen

Nietzsche and the critique of religion / Tracy B. Strong

Nihilism, naturalism, and the will to power in Nietzsche's The antichrist / Christian J. Emden

Resurgent nobility and the problem of false consciousness / Daniel Conway

Deconstructing the human: Ludwig Binswanger on Homo natura in Nietzsche and Freud / Vanessa Lemm

Reading Dostoevsky in Turin: the antichrist's accelerationism / Gary Shapiro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1350016888

9781350016880

OCLC:

1005112419