Pious Nietzsche
Decadence and Dionysian Faith
In Pious Nietzsche, Bruce Ellis Benson puts forward the surprising idea that Nietzsche was never a godless nihilist, but was instead deeply religious. But how does Nietzsche affirm life and faith in the midst of decadence and decay? Benson looks carefully at Nietzsche's life history and views of three decadents, Socrates, Wagner, and Paul, to come to grips with his pietistic turn. Key to this understanding is Benson's interpretation of the powerful effect that Nietzsche thinks music has on the human spirit. Benson claims that Nietzsche's improvisations at the piano were emblematic of the Dionysian or frenzied, ecstatic state he sought, but wa…
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- ISBN: 978-0-253-21874-2
- EAN: 9780253218742
- Produktnummer: 3074763
- Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 453 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 453
Über den Autor
Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wheaton College, Illinois. He is author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion on Modern Idolatry and The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music. He is co-editor (with Kevin Vanhoozer and James K. A. Smith) of Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (IUP, 2006).
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