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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This collection both reflects and contributes to the recent surge of philosophical interest in The Antichrist and represents a major contribution to Nietzsche studies. 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.

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Introduction, Daniel Conway (Texas A & M University, USA) -- 1. A Revived God in The Antichrist? Nietzsche and the Sacralization of Natural Life Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University, USA) -- 2 -- History, Nature and the 'Genetic Fallacy' in The Antichrist's Revaluation of Values -- Tom Stern (University College London, UK) -- 3 -- Comparative Religion in The Antichrist: Pastiche, Subversion, Cultural Intervention Antoine Panaïoti (Ryserson University, Canada) -- 4 -- Nietzsche's Antichristian Ethics: Renaissance Virtù and the Project of Re-evaluation David Owen (University of Southampton, UK) -- 5 -- Nietzsche's Critique of Kant's Priestly Philosophy Paul S. Loeb (University of Puget Sound, USA) -- 6 -- Nietzsche's Quest for the Historical Jesus Anthony Jensen (Providence College, USA) -- 7 -- Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion Tracy B. Strong (UCSD and University of Southampton, UK) -- 8 -- Nihilism, Naturalism, and the Will to Power in Nietzsche's The Anti-Christ Christian J. Emden (Rice University, USA) -- 9 -- Resurgent Nobility and the Problem of False Consciousness Daniel Conway (Texas A & M University, USA) -- 10 -- Deconstructing the Human: Ludwig Binswanger on Homo Natura in Nietzsche and Freud Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University, Australia) -- 11 -- Reading Dostoevsky in Turin: The Antichrist's Accelerationism Gary Shapiro (University of Richmond, USA) -- Index.

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