Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion

Download or read book Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion written by Tim Murphy and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche argued that metaphor is at the basis of language, concepts, and perception, making it the vehicle by which humans interpret the world. As such, metaphor has profound consequences for the nature of religion and of philosophy. Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion connects Nietzsche's early writings on rhetoric and metaphor, especially as understood by contemporary French philosophers and literary theorists, with Nietzsche's later writings on religion. The result is a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's "philosophy of religion" as an unending series of metaphoric-literary agons or contests.