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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Nietzsche'S Philosophy Of Religion by Julian Young
In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from nihilism only through the revival of such a festival. This is commonly thought to be a view which did not survive the termination of Nietzsches early Wagnerianism, but Julian Young argues, on the basis of an examination of all of Nietzsches published works, that his religious communitarianism in fact persists through all his writings. What follows, it is argued, is that the mature Nietzsche is neither an atheist, an individualist, nor an immoralist: he is a German philosopher belonging to a German tradition of conservative communitarianism - though to claim him as a proto-Nazi is radically mistaken. This important reassessment will be of interest to all Nietzsche scholars and to a wide range of readers in German philosophy.show more