Daniel Conway - Nietzsche and the Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity

Nietzsche and The Antichrist

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And time is reckoned from the dies nefastus with which this calamity beganafter the first day of Christianity! Why not rather after its last day? After today?

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The Antichrist, section 62The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against Gods holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beastall whose names have not been written in the Lambs book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

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Nietzsche and The Antichrist

Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity

Edited by
Daniel Conway

Contents

An earlier version of Chapter 7 appeared in Jahrbuch fr Religionsphilosophie, Holger Zabarowski and Markus Enders (eds) (V. 13, 2014). The Editor and the Author gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce portions of that essay.

The editor gratefully acknowledges the support of the Office of the Vice-President for Research, the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. The editor is also pleased to acknowledge the assistance of Matthew Wester, who prepared the Index of Names and the Index of Subjects.In MemoriamThomas J. Conway, MD (19262017)

Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities and Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies and Film Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Political (Routledge, 1997), Nietzsches Dangerous Game (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morals (Continuum, 2008). A member of the Editorial Boards of Nietzsche-Studien , the Journal of Nietzsche Studies , and Nietzsche Online , he is also Honorary Life Member of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society.

Christian J. Emden is Professor of Modern German Intellectual History and Political Thought at Rice University, where he is also one of the directors of the Program in Politics, Law & Social Thought. Among his book publications are Nietzsches Naturalism: Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century (2014), Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (2008), and Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body (2005). Emden is one of the chief editors of the journal Nietzsche-Studien and of the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche Forschung .

Lawrence J. Hatab is Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy and Eminent Scholar Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He has published seven books and over fifty articles, mostly on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and ancient thought. His books on Nietzsche include A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy (Open Court, 1995), Nietzsches Life Sentence (Routledge, 2005), and Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morality (Cambridge, 2008). His most recent book is Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017).

Anthony K. Jensen is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. He is a specialist in Late Modern Philosophy, with thematic focuses in Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Psychology, and Epistemology. He has produced three books: An Interpretation of Nietzsches On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life (Routledge, 2016); Nietzsche's Philosophy of History (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, with Helmut Heit, Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Vanessa Lemm is Professor of Philosophy at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she also holds the position of Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She is the author of Nietzsches Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (Fordham University Press, 2009), Nietzsche y el pensamiento politico contemporneo (Fondo de cultura econmica, 2013), and several articles on Nietzsche, biopolitics, and contemporary political theory. She recently edited Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life and The Government of Life: Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, both with Fordham University Press, 2014, as well as Nietzsche y el devenir de la vida (Fondo de cultura econmica, 2014).

Paul S. Loeb is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound. He is the author of The Death of Nietzsches Zarathustra (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His current projects include monographs on Nietzsches theories of eternal recurrence and will to power, a co-edited collection on Nietzsches metaphilosophy, and a collaborative translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Volumes 7, 14, and 15 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche from Stanford University Press).