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Redeeming Nietzsche

‘This, at last, is a truly theological engagement with Nietzsche. Fraser opens up a

missing dimension in Nietzsche scholarship, understanding Nietzsche’s redemptive

project as only a theologian can. This is an innovative, exciting and clear book that

all who study Nietzsche should read, whether scholars or beginners.’

Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham

‘Urgent, topical and innovative . . . this will be an important, much-discussed book.’

Daniel W. Conway, The Pennsylvania State University

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, Nietzsche’s thought is revealed to be a series of experiments in redemp-

tion. However, when placed in direct confrontation with the enormity of modern

understandings of destruction, Nietzsche’s prescriptions for human salvation look

like the imaginings of a more comfortable age. Drawing upon the work of Kundera,

Nussbaum, Girard and Cavell, Fraser traces the successive failures of Nietzsche’s

salvation theology to an inability fully to face the depths of human suffering.

Though Nietzsche’s powerful attack upon Christianity has remained inﬂuential

for over a century, few have attempted to mount a sustained theological critique of

his thought. Redeeming Nietzsche challenges assumptions of Nietzsche’s secularity and

opens up a new front in Nietzsche scholarship.

Giles Fraser is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. He is also the

Vicar of Putney.

Redeeming Nietzsche

On the piety of unbelief

Giles Fraser

London and New York

First published 2002

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Fraser, Giles.

Redeeming Nietzsche: on the piety of unbelief/Giles Fraser.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900—Religion.

I. Title.

B3318.R4 F73 2002

193—dc21 2001044459

ISBN 0-203-42787-4 Master e-book ISBN

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ISBN 0–415–27290–4 (hb)

ISBN 0–415–27291–2 (pb)

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