Contesting spirit : Nietzsche, affirmation, religion

Author(s)

• Roberts, Tyler T.

Bibliographic Information

Contesting spirit : Nietzsche, affirmation, religion

Tyler T. Roberts

Princeton University Press, c1998

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-223) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzshe is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche's conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguiies that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the enactment of a spiritual quest informed by transfigured versions of religious tropes and practices.

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Details

• NCID: BA41301431
• ISBN:
  • 0691059373
  • 0691001278
• LCCN: 98014875
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Princeton, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 230 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B3318.R4
  • DC21 : 200/.92
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Religion
  • LCSH : Religion -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century