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Informationen zum 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). Klappentext 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 was ultimately unable to achieve, before he descended into madness. For its insights into questions of faith, decadence, and transcendence, this book is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, philosophy, and religion. Zusammenfassung A sustained and surprising reading finds Nietzsche to have been deeply religious Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface: Reading Nietzsche Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Improvising Pietism Part 1. From Christian Pietism to Dionysian Pietism 1. The Prayers and Tears of Young Fritz 2. The Euthanasia of Christianity 3. The Piety of Zarathustra Part 2. Profiles in Decadence 4. Nietzsche's Decadence 5. Socrates' Fate 6. Wagner's Redemption 7. Paul's Revenge Part 3. Nietzsche's New Pietism 8. Deconstructing the Redeemer 9. Nietzsche's Musical Askêsis 10. We, Too, Are Still Pious Notes Works Cited Index ...
