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Nietzsche's Gods
Critical and Constructive Perspectives
Introduction
The place (or absence) of God in Nietzsche’s thought remains central and controversial. Nietzsche’s proclamation of the death of God is one of the most famous (and parodied) slogans in modern philosophy, seeming to encapsulate the nineteenth-century loss of religious faith in the affirmation that God has turned out to be our oldest lie and yet the nature of Nietzsche’s own theology is far from clear.
Scope of the Volume
This volume engages with Nietzsche’s arguments about God, theology, and religion. The volume extends the discussion to an engagement of Nietzsche with alternative models of God, with ancient Greek religions, and with discussions of diversity (race, class, gender, sex) in dis/conjunction with religion.
Chapter Focus
The chapters examine Nietzsche’s genealogy of religion and his claims about the place of God and theology in the history of Western thought (that faith of the Christians, which was also Plato’s faith), as well as his engagements with alternative conceptions of God.
Reception and Relevance
The volume also examines the historical and contemporary reception of Nietzsche’s arguments about God by religious and non-religious thinkers, asking to what extent Nietzsche’s philosophy of God speaks to the challenges of today’s globalized philosophy and religion.
