Nietzsche and The Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity

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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. Cover HalfTitle Dedication Title Copyright Series Content Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Daniel Conway 1 A Revived God in The Antichrist ? Nietzsche and the Sacralization of Natural Life Lawrence J. Hatab 2 History,Nature,and the “Genetic Fallacy” in The Antichrist’s Revaluation of Values Tom Stern 3 Comparative Religion in The Antichrist : Pastiche, Subversion,Cultural Intervention Antoine Panaïoti 4 Nietzsche’s Antichristian Ethics: Renaissance Virtù and the Project of Reevaluation David Owen 5 Nietzsche’s Critique of Kant's Priestly Philosophy Paul S.Loeb 6 Nietzsche’s Quest for the Historical Jesus Anthony K. Jensen 7 Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion Tracy B.Strong 8 Nihilism, Naturalism, and the Will to Power in Nietzsche’s The Antichrist Christian J.Emden 9 Resurgent Nobility and the Problem of False Consciousness Daniel Conway 10 Deconstructing the Human: Ludwig Binswanger on Homo Natura in Nietzsche and Freud Vanessa Lemm 11 Reading Dostoevsky in Turin: The Antichrist’s Accelerationism Gary Shapiro Index of Subjects Index of Names