Nietzsche and the Shadow of God

425 Pages·2012·1.734 MB·English

by  Didier Franck

NIETZSCHE AND THE SHADOW OF GOD
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Northwestern University
Studies in Phenomenology
and
Existential Philosophy
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Founding Editor †James M. Edie
General Editor Anthony J. Steinbock
Associate Editor John McCumber
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N I E T Z S C H E A N D
T H E S H A D O W O F
G O D
Didier Franck
Translated from the French by Bettina Bergo and
Philippe Farah
Northwestern University Press
Evanston, Illinois
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Northwestern University Press
www.nupress.northwestern.edu
Copyright © 2011 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2011. All rights
reserved. Originally published in French as Nietzsche et l’ombre de Dieu in 1998
by Presses Universitaires de France, 108 boulevard Saint-G ermain, 75006 Paris
1998.
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN 978-0 - 8101-2 665-7 (cloth)
ISBN 978-0 - 8101-2 666-4 (paper)
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Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
Part 1. From the Resurrection of Body to Eternal Recurrence
1 The Body Under the Law 000
2 Justice and Faith 000
3 One Vision Out of Another 000
4 Circulus Vitiosis Deus? 000
Part 2. The Shadow of God
1 The Double Status of the Body 000
2 The Self-N egation of the Will 000
3 The Great Coincidence 000
4 Speculative Theology 000
5 The Prophetic Translation 000
6 Zeus or Christ 000
Part 3. The Guiding Thread
1 The Plurality of the Body 000
2 The Criterion 000
3 Pleasure and Pain 000
4 To Will, to Feel, to Think 000
5 Organization and Reproduction 000
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Part 4. The Logic of the Body
1 Dehumanization as a Method 000
2 Fear and the Will to Assimilation 000
3 Simplifi cation and Judgment 000
Part 5. The System of Identical Cases
1 Sensation and Evaluation 000
2 The Formation of Categories 000
3 Space and Time 000
4 Representation 000
5 Coordination and Necessity 000
6 The Subject of Causality 000
Part 6. From Eternal Recurrence to the Resurrection of Body
1 Memory 000
2 Consciousness 000
3 The Decisive Instant 000
4 The Incorporation of Truth 000
5 The Priestly Revaluation 000
6 The New Justice 000
Notes 000
Index 000
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Acknowledgments
Heartfelt thanks to Héloïse Bailly, Université de Strasbourg II and Uni-
versité de Montréal, for her scrupulous work on footnotes and transla-
tion questions. Gabriel Malenfant, University of Iceland, followed the
preparation of this text from start to fi nish; he is responsible for correc-
tions as much as for inspiration. Thanks, also, go to Lukas Soderstrom
(Université de Montréal) for extensive research into philosophical and
historical questions. Marc-J ames Tacheji (McGill University Law School)
provided invaluable help on the fi nal translation. Thanks are due to the
Université de Montréal, Département de Philosophie, to Joseph Hu-
bert of the Vice-R ectorat à la recherche, and Yves Murray, directeur de
la recherche, Faculté des arts et sciences, for their combined material
support. Thanks to Babette Babich (Fordham University) and Christine
Daigle (Brock University) for help on questions of Nietzsche scholarship.
Finally, sincere thanks to Claude Piché for help on questions of German
Idealism.
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