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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788938603321

Autore

Fornari Giuseppe <1956->

Titolo

A God torn to pieces : the Nietzsche case / / Giuseppe Fornari ; translation by Keith Buck in collaboration with the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing : , : Michigan State University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-62895-036-6

1-60917-392-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Collana

Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BuckKeith

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Christianity - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Original title: "Il dio sbranato, Nietzsche e lo scandalo della croce" [published as] an essay contained in the book Il caso Nietzsche, la ribellione fallita dell'anticristo, copyright ©2002 by Casa Editrice Marietti ... Milan-Genoa, Italy"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hunt for the whale -- Eternal recurrence of madness -- Philosopher and his double -- Foundation of Dionysus -- Antichrist and the crucifixion -- What none have perceived.

Sommario/riassunto

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