Nietzsche's Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses

by Paul Bishop

This book offers an exercise in reception theory and investigates the key figures in the reception of Nietzsche's critique of Judeo-Christianity in the course of the twentieth century. It has often been remarked upon -- but rarely, if ever, explained -- why Nietzsche, the author of the famous parable in The Gay Science in which a madman announces the "death of God" and a self-proclaimed opponent of organised religion, should have been a figure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031639766
• ISBN13: 9783031639760
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"