Nietzsche's philosophy of religion / Julian Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Religion.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Religion--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsche's early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsche's published works, that his religious communitarianism in fact persists through all his writings. What follows, it is argued, is that the mature Nietzsche is neither an 'atheist', an 'individualist', nor an 'immoralist': he is a German philosopher belonging to a German tradition of conservative communitarianism - though to claim him as a proto-Nazi is radically mistaken. This important reassessment will be of interest to all Nietzsche scholars and to a wide range of readers in German philosophy.

Contents:

1. Schopenhauer and 'man's need for metaphysics'

2. The birth of tragedy

3. Untimely meditations

4. Human, all-too-human

5. The gay science

6. Thus spoke Zarathustra

7. Beyond good and evil

8. On the genealogy of morals

9. The Wagner case

10. Twilight of the idols

11. The antichrist

12. Ecce homo

13. Epilogue : Nietzsche in history.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-81041-3

1-107-15500-2

1-107-31844-0

0-511-28198-6

0-511-28121-8

0-511-58441-5

0-511-28079-3

1-299-39891-X

0-511-28160-9

OCLC:

776969473