Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Nietzsche Titles: Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reading the Signs of the Times: Nietzsche contra Nietzsche
- Chapter 2 The Economy of Decadence
- Chapter 3 Peoples and Ages: The Mortal Soul Writ Large
- Chapter 4 Et tu, Nietzsche?
- Chapter 5 Parastrategesis: Esotericism for Decadents
- Chapter 6 Skirmishes of an Untimely Man: Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values
- Chapter 7 Standing between Two Millennia: Intimations of the Antichrist
- Conclusion: Odysseus Bound?
- Index
Chapter 6 - Skirmishes of an Untimely Man: Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Nietzsche Titles: Sources and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Reading the Signs of the Times: Nietzsche contra Nietzsche
- Chapter 2 The Economy of Decadence
- Chapter 3 Peoples and Ages: The Mortal Soul Writ Large
- Chapter 4 Et tu, Nietzsche?
- Chapter 5 Parastrategesis: Esotericism for Decadents
- Chapter 6 Skirmishes of an Untimely Man: Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values
- Chapter 7 Standing between Two Millennia: Intimations of the Antichrist
- Conclusion: Odysseus Bound?
- Index
Summary
But one misunderstands great human beings if one views them from the miserable perspective of some public use. That one cannot put them to any use, that in itself may belong to greatness.
(TI 9:50)I am no man, I am dynamite. … It is only beginning with me that the earth knows great politics.
(EH:destiny 1)Introduction
By virtually all accounts except Nietzsche's own, The Antichrist(ian) is a disappointment, even something of an embarrassment. His self-appointed executors prudently withheld the book from print, eventually publishing it in a selectively edited form. Once safely, if incompletely, in print, The Antichrist(ian) was summarily denounced as a product of its author's incipient madness.
Unlike many of Nietzsche's other “untimely” books, The Antichrist(ian) has not yet attracted a belated readership of serious scholars. Even Nietzsche's sympathetic readers have largely ignored (or apologized for) The Antichrist(ian), treating his critique of Christianity as an inessential (and perhaps malignant) outgrowth of his more promising philosophical insights. Apparently concluding that a domestication of Nietzsche's thought is a fair (and perhaps desirable) price to pay for his newly accorded status as a respectable philosopher, his contemporary champions have gently nudged this angry book into a shadowy, liminal position on the periphery of his oeuvre.
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- Nietzsche's Dangerous GamePhilosophy in the Twilight of the Idols, pp. 178 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997