This is the phrase that more than any other is associated withNietzsche. Yet there is an irony here since Nietzsche was not the first to come up with this expression. The German writer Heinrich Heine (who Nietzsche admired) said it first. But it was Nietzsche who made it is his mission ...
The aim of this essay is to reflect on the implications of the thought of the death of God with a view to two related themes. The first has to do with the a-teleological interpretation of Being and the world as a result of the collapse of the transcendent realm which heretofore had giv...
This essay considers Barthes' and Derrida's continuing dialogue with Nietzsche's claim, "God is dead". Barthes urges one, in The Death of the Author, to accept the text as a means of escape from the nothingness of the self, and Derrida, at first glance, appears to agree when he states...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: The genealogy of guilt The second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality ostensibly develops an account of the origins of the feeling of guilt, which is marked by the appearance of tight conceptual cohesion: the essay begins with an analysis of the co...
That is why Nietzsche said that one should not attack Christianity based on its truth, but based on it livability. A moment’s reflection leads one to see that this is the way in which the Faith is most often attacked today. This is why we must be prepared to demonstrate its livability...
currents break through. If we think only of the great names of German thought, like Kant and Hegel down through Nietzsche (not to mention Marx), it can be shown that in roundabout ways philosophy has had a tremendous effect. Do you mean now that this effectiveness of philosophy is at an...
Put your thinking caps on today, boys and girls – this essay is worth it. The critique of Neopaganism given here is provoking me to completely rethink the way I relate to the gods. – B. T. Newberg We Neopagans often say that the gods are archetypes, but rarely do we he...
Educational PhilosophyWestern CivilizationUniversitiesEducational ChangePhilosophyPower StructureMetacognitionIn the "Rectoral Address", of 1933, Martin Heidegger indicates that the crisis of the West, articulated by Nietzsche as the "death of God", was a central concern in his attempt to rethink and ...
Michael Ehrmantraut
Losing his father at a young age was a calamity from which Nietzsche never recovered, and I argue that his famous thought-image "God is dead" was a transfiguration of the painful memory of this loss. In this essay, I trace Nietzsche's tortuous path from an ardent devotee of God to a ...