{"product_id":"nietzsche-religion-and-mood-9783110620320","title":"Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does Nietzsche, as psychologist, envision the future of religion and \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eatheism? While there has been no lack of “psychological” studies that \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehave sought to illuminate Nietzsche's philosophy of religion by \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003einterpreting his biography, this monograph is the first comprehensive \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estudy to approach the topic through the philosopher's own psychological \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethinking. The author shows how Nietzsche's critical writings on religion, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand especially on religious decline and future possibilities, are informed \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eby his psychological thinking about moods. The author furthermore \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eargues that the clarification of this aspect of the philosopher’s work is \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eessential to interpreting some of the most ambiguous words found in his \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewritings; the words that God is dead. Instead of merely denying the \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eexistence of God in a way that leaves a melancholic need for religion or a \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efutile search for replacements intact, Nietzsche arguably envisions the \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003epossibility of a radical atheism, which is characterized by a mood of joyful \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edoubt. The examination of this vision should be of great interest to \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003escholars of Nietzsche and of the history of philosophy, but also of \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003erelevance to all those who take an interest in the interdisciplinary \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ediscourse on secularization. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516590645591,"sku":"9783110620320","price":113.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nietzsche-religion-and-mood-9783110620320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}