...This chapter argues that Friedrich Nietzsche's rejection of Christianity is motivated by an idea of justice which has its source in the practice of gift-giving. It states that the double failure that Nietzsche detects in the Christian practice of giving and forgiveness results from denying...

... Johannes Tinker Creek Thoreau Henry David Walden Pond Wordsworth William Merton Thomas Pennington Basil Russian East Friedrich Nietzsche Gregory of Nyssa Maximos the Confessor Maximus the Confessor Max Weber Pavel Florensky Seeing Disenchantment Thēoria Physikē Contemplation of Nature Much...

... to Martin Luther, Friedrich Nietzsche, and contemporary Continental thought. Heroic willing is explained in the existential conception of striving will. Comparison and contrast of “Eastern” and “Western” views on heroic willing reveals the possibility of a moderate concept of volitional determination...

... laboratories architectural layout Laboratory Life Latour and Woolgar “Theater of the Proof” Pasteur microbiology The Pasteurization of France scientific activity as agnostics Bruno Latour Louis Pasteur Bacteriology Modernity Actor-network theory Gilles Deleuze Friedrich Nietzsche “The first bachelor...

...In the wake of his early fascination with Arthur Schopenhauer’s dark pessimism, Friedrich Nietzsche discovered that Yes had an energizing and terrifying power in ancient Greek tragedy. In Albert Camus’s 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, repetition drives home the pointlessness...

... that there is a positive conception of pointlessness that evades the paradox of trudging boots. Friedrich Nietzsche characterizes the negative conception of pointlessness that delivers us to nihilism and at the same time argues that what is needed is a “more rigorous critique” of the concept of purpose. The problem now...

... this turn by misrepresenting the achievements of poststructuralism in this area. It also discusses the practicing of hearing in the medium of theory in the otological work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida, citing their auditory turns well before the advent of the fields of aural...

... Pharisee authority Bonhoeffer Dietrich hermeneutics interpretation Judaism paradox sign Talmud Torah wisdom power Merold Westphal Martin Hiedegger Friedrich Nietzsche Jacques Derrida ontotheology Christianity modernity hermeneutics God Thinking about religion in postmodernity may make...

...In July 1964, a major five-day conference on Friedrich Nietzsche took place at the Royaumont Abbey just north of Paris. Organized by Gilles Deleuze, with input from Jean Wahl, Deleuze invited presentations from both younger philosophers like Michel Foucault and Gianni Vattimo, as well as from...

... in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. A coda traces the way unresolved tensions inherited from romanticism resurface in a novelist like J...

... Jacques Derrida Henri Birault Ontological Difference Finitude Martin Heidegger Friedrich Nietzsche Play There was no religious turn. Many of the papers in this volume focus on texts from the 1990s. It was at this time that Derrida turned the formidable arsenal of a deconstructive methodology...

... Hopkins Gerard Manley Lopez Barry Oates Joyce Carol Snyder Gary Deep Ecology Arne Naess Albert Camus Postmodernism Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Friedrich Hölderlin Pavel Florensky Beauty The Holy From a deep dream I woke and swear The world is deep, Deeper than day had been aware...

... the Great William Blake Idolatry Idol Jean-Luc Marion Ludwig Feuerbach Friedrich Nietzsche Gilles Deleuze How is this thing, this Newtonian phantasm … this Natural Religion, this impossible absurdity? —William Blake, “Milton” The Enlightenment fought with the opponent’s weapons...

... Moses Pentateuch Psalmist Theodore St nēpsis prōtēanthrōpos Fall the Divine Nature Eden John the Evangelist St Friedrich Nietzsche Lynn White Jr thēoria physikē Pavel Florensky Elder Paisios Elder Porphyrios Natural Beauty Materiality Idolatry And all of these refer to some slight...

...This chapter situates Kierkegaard's commitment to death in companionship with a similar, if not identical, commitment on the part of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both conceptualize the relation between self and other as occurring across an abyss of difference that dissolves the authority of the author...

... on all that it encounters, the condition of being approached by the divine would be the dimming of that light. There are several paths that lead from the light of intelligibility to the darkness of unknowing — Friedrich Nietzsche's and Emmanuel Levinas's, as well as those trodden by the mystics...

... articulation or dialogue between poetic saying and thinking. This chapter examines other relevant works of Heidegger, including his courses on Friedrich Holderlin and Friedrich Nietzsche, and “The Origin of the Work of Art”. ethics Heidegger Martin Hölderlin Friedrich Husserl Edmund Levinas Emmanuel...

... the Deleuze Gilles Descartes René Kant Immanuel Céline Louis Ferdinand Goethe Johann Wolfgang Zen Nancy Jean Luc Foucault Michel Hobbes Thomas angel dogmatism skepticism dogs Franz Kafka Milan Kundera Friedrich Nietzsche Take good notice of Milan’s dogs. —Josef Skvorecky ¹...

.... In addressing the functioning of the two terms, the author draws upon and critiques the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Roman Jakobson, Christian Metz, Paul Ricoeur, Umberto Eco, Edmund Leach, and Paul de Man....