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Title: Nietzsche and the Gods by Weaver Santaniello, John J. Stuhr ISBN: 0-7914-5114-3 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Overcoming and overcoming religion
Comment: This is a dynamite collection by English-language scholars drawing primarily on English-language research. The essays are arranged logically, and deal with major religious traditions and mmajor issues in traditional religions. All reflect solid scholarship and persuasively argue their cases, and the essays interesect in myriad interesting ways. This book is a needed antidote to the students and scholars who read and write as though Nietzsche simply dismissed religion. The editor's introduction provides a thoughtful introduction to the topic, and the brief foreword is especially clever--and filled with ideas that are followed out in the book's contributions. Persons who want to read Nietzsche through Heidegger or contemporary Continental thought may not find much the like; at the same time, the book demonstrates the value of not reading Nietzsche exclusively in this way. Finally, the book is no doubt especially useful for persons who find their religious beliefs challenged or shaken by reading Nietzsche; this book provides a thoughtful, articulate next step to persons who have been made stronger by that challenge. Nicely done!

Rating: 1
Summary: Silly Cover, and the Content....
Comment: This anthology of essays on the relationship of Nietzsche's thought to the major world religions is deeply flawed. Although the conception of this book is excellent and its organization into chapters on Nietzsche's relationship to five of the world's major religions is clear enough, this anthology has many problems. Few of the essays take recent scholarship on Nietzsche into consideration; only one of the essays seriously consults German sources; none of the authors seems to have consulted scholarship in French on the relationship between Nietzsche and the sacred; the Select Bibliography disregards most of the landmarks in Nietzsche scholarship over the last fifty years. Because of the inherently interesting nature of this subject, an ordinary, non-specialist reader might find some of the essays interesting, but few serious students of European philosophy will have much to learn from these essays. The "Foreword" of this book, written by John J. Stuhr, is a mannered imitation of the style of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo and has little to do with the actual content of the anthologized essays. Finally, the cover photo of a demented Nietzsche with a crown of thorns will mislead non-specialized readers.