LEADER 03927nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910956555603321 005 20250414173311.0 010 $a9786612753466 010 $a9781400813117 010 $a1400813115 010 $a9780691059372 010 $a0691059373 010 $a9781282753464 010 $a1282753460 010 $a9781400822614 010 $a1400822610 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822614 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044902 035 $a(EBL)581645 035 $a(OCoLC)700688676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129888 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129888 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10081640 035 $a(PQKB)10577707 035 $a(DE-B1597)446180 035 $a(OCoLC)979577847 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581645 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044902 100 $a19980224d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContesting spirit $eNietzsche, affirmation, religion /$fTyler T. Roberts 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781400806584 311 08$a1400806585 311 08$a9780691001272 311 08$a0691001278 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-223) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tNOTE ON TEXTS AND CITATIONS --$tIntroduction: NIETZSCHE AND RELIGION --$tChapter One. Too Much of Nothing: Metaphysics and the Value of Existence --$tChapter Two. Figuring Religion, Contesting Spirit --$tChapter Three. Nietzsche's Asceticism --$tChapter Four. The Problem of Mysticism in Nietzsche --$tChapter Five. Ecstatic Philosophy --$tChapter Six. Nietzsche's Affirmation: A Passion for the Real --$tConclusion: Alterity and Affirmation --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aChallenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzsche is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche's thought and Nietzsche's thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche's conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguities that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the enactment of a spiritual quest informed by transfigured versions of religious tropes and practices. Nietzsche criticizes the ascetic hatred of the body and this-worldly life, yet engages in rigorous practices of self-denial--he sees philosophy as such a practice--and affirms the need of imposing suffering on oneself in order to enhance the spirit. He dismisses the "intoxication" of mysticism, yet links mysticism, power, and creativity, and describes his own self-transcending experiences. The tensions in his relation to religion are closely related to that between negation and affirmation in his thinking in general. In Roberts's view, Nietzsche's transfigurations of religion offer resources for a postmodern religious imagination. Though as a "master of suspicion," Nietzsche, with Freud and Marx, is an integral part of modern antireligion, he has the power to take us beyond the flat, modern distinction between the secular and the religious--a distinction that, at the end of modernity, begs to be reexamined. 531 $aCONTESTING SPIRIT 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy$xHistory 676 $a200/.92 700 $aRoberts$b Tyler T.$f1960-$01093818 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956555603321 996 $aContesting spirit$94357482 997 $aUNINA