Contesting Spirit : Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion

Challenging the dominant scholarly consensus that Nietzshe 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 ambiguiies that mark his criticisms of asceticism and mysticism.

What emerges is a vision of Nietzsche's philosophy as the enactment of a spiritual quest informed by transfigured versions of religious tropes and practices.