Contesting Spirit

Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzsche is simply an enemy of religion, Tyler Roberts examines the place of religion in Nietzsche''s thought and Nietzsche''s thought as a site of religion. Roberts argues that Nietzsche''s conceptualization and cultivation of an affirmative self require that we interrogate the ambiguities that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism. Wha...