Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief

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Routledge, 01.02.2013 - 208 Seiten
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
 

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1 Holy Nietzsche
1
2 The orientation of Nietzsches question of God
24
3 Facing the truth outfacing the horror
45
4 Redeeming redemption
72
5 Parables of innocence and judgement
100
6 Salvation kitsch and the denial of shit
122
7 Sacrifice and the logic of exclusion
141
8 Fear of the other
154
Notes
167
Bibliography
181
Index
188
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Giles Fraser is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham College, University of Oxford. He is also the Vicar of Putney.

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