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While the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognised and understood. Fraser traces the failures of Nietzsche's salvation theology to an inability to face the depths of human suffering.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #3359563 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
'Urgent, topical and innovative ... This will be an important, much-discussed book.' - Daniel W. Conway, Pennsylvania State University

'An innovative, exciting and clear book that all who study Nietzsche should read, whether scholars or beginners.' - Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham

From the Back Cover
O Zarathustra, you are more pious than you believe, with such unbelief! Some god in you has converted you to your goodness. (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised. Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognised and rarely understood. Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual theologian in the most vociferous of atheists.
Fraser demonstrates that although Nietzsche rejected God, he remained obsessed with the question of human salvation. Examining his accounts of art, truth, morality and eternity, Nietzsches thought is revealed to be a series of experiments in redemption. However, when placed in direct confrontation with the enormity of modern understandings of destruction, Nietzsches prescriptions for human salvation look like the imaginings of a more comfortable age. Drawing upon the work of Kundera, Nussbaum, Girard and

About the Author
Giles Fraser is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham College, University of Oxford. He is also the Vicar of Putney.