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This book explores the constantly shifting affinities and disaffinities between philosophical and religious thought, with an emphasis on the specific strand of thinking which has come to be known as neo-Nietzscheanism. Jones Irwin explores how these neo-Nietzschean thinkers develop an original thinking of the religious, and its relation to philosophy, and how this religious thinking has its sources in Nietzsche's own complex relationship to religion and theology.
About the author
Jones Irwin was a Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Warwick (part-time) and full-time from 1999-2001 at University of Limerick and from 2001-now at Dublin City University. He has published widely in related areas to the book project, most notably the following: 2003. On Prohibition and Transgression: Georges Bataille and the Possibility of Affirming Evil in This Thing of Darkness: Perspectives on Evil, edited by Margaret Sönser Breen and Richard Hamilton. London/Amsterdam. Rodopi 2003. Deconstructing God: Defending Derrida Against Radical Orthodoxy in Explorations in Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Edited by Patrick Maxwell and Peter Deane-Baker. Amsterdam/New York. Rodopi 2006. Reinvoking Nietzsche's Religious Instinct How to Avoid a New Theistic Satisfaction, in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Association, edited by James McGuirk. Maynooth, Irish Philosophical Society.
Summary
This book explores the constantly shifting affinities and disaffinities between philosophical and religious thought, with an emphasis on the specific strand of thinking which has come to be known as neo-Nietzscheanism. Jones Irwinexplores how these neo-Nietzschean thinkers develop an original thinking of the religious, and its relation to philosophy, and how this religious thinking has its sources in Nietzsche's own complex relationship to religion and theology.
