Overview
- Examines the tension in Nietzsche’s works between two competing discourses, theology and philology
- Argues Nietzsche cannot believe because he thinks he uncovers a fraudulent production of meaning in biblical texts
- Understanding his ‘philological turn’ explains the increasing urgency of his anti-Christian polemics
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This study proposes to examine the tension in Nietzsche’s works between two competing discourses, i.e., the discourse of theology and the discourse of philology. It argues that, in order to understand Nietzsche’s complicated standpoint and the aim of his Kulturkritik, we have to appreciate how he operates with two different discourses, one indexed to belief, faith, liturgy (i.e., the discourse of theology) and another indexed to analytical reason, sceptical investigation, and logical argumentation, as well as historical context and linguistic precision (i.e., the discourse of philology). Its core thesis is that, in the end, Nietzsche can no longer believe, because he thinks he has uncovered a fraudulent production of meaning in the texts, in a way that is comparable with his insight into the production of morality in On the Genealogy of Morals (1887).
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–Thorsten Carstensen, Lecturer in German Studies, University of Amsterdam
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Book Title: Discourses of Philology and Theology in Nietzsche
Book Subtitle: From the “Untimelies” to The Anti-Christ
Authors: Paul Bishop
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42272-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42271-3Published: 01 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42274-4Due: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42272-0Published: 31 October 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 493
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy, Hermeneutics