A God torn to pieces : the Nietzsche case /

A God torn to pieces : the Nietzsche case /

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Author / Creator:Fornari, Giuseppe, 1956-
Imprint:East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013]
©2013
Description:1 online resource (162 pages).
Language:English
Series:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Subject:
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900 -- Religion.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900.
Christianity -- Philosophy.
Christianity -- Philosophy.
Religion.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398191
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Other authors / contributors:Buck, Keith.
ISBN:9781609173920
1609173929
9781628960358
1628960353
9781611861013
1611861012
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Giuseppe Fornari's groundbreaking inquiry shows that Friedrich Nietzsche's neglected importance as a religious thinker and his untimeliness place him at the forefront of modern thought. Capable of exploiting his own failures as a cognitive tool to discover what other philosophers never wanted to see, Nietzsche ultimately drove himself to mental collapse. Fornari analyzes the tragic reports of Nietzsche's madness and seeks out the cause of this self-destructive destiny, which, he argues, began earlier than his rivalry with the composer and polemicist Richard Wagner, dating back to the premature loss of Nietzsche's father. Dramatic experience enabled Nietzsche to detect a more general tendency of European culture, leading to his archaeological and prophetic discovery of the death of God, which he understood as a primordial assassination from which all humankind took its origin. Fornari concludes that Nietzsche's fatal rebellion against a Christian awareness, which he identified as the greatest threat to his plan, led him to become one and the same not only with Dionysus but also with the crucified Christ. His effort, Fornari argues, was a dramatic way to recognize the silent, inner meaning of Christ's figure, and perhaps to be forgiven.
Other form:Print version: Fornari, Giuseppe. God torn to pieces : the Nietzsche case. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2013] xvii, 143 pages Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture 9781611861013

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