REL370.001
Nietzsche
and Religion

"Nietzsche has written what he has written." 00000000Jacques Derrida

Professor
Dr. Tim Murphy
tmurphy@bama.ua.edu

Fall 2007
Office: 209 Manly Hall
Office Phone: 348-8513
Course: M 3:00-5:50
Location: 210 Manly Hall

About Online Readings

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Description

This course will cover Nietzsche's major writings on the topic of religion. It will also touch on such themes as language, power, subjectivity, history, and philosophy. The emphasis will be on close readings of primary texts, always with a view to issues of interpretation. The Nietzschean understanding of interpretation and problems of how to interpret a text, will be part of the way in which the texts are read.

Syllabus

Fall 2007 Syllabus (PDF)

Dr. Tim's Guide to Expository Writing (PDF)

Nietzsche Pretest (PDF)

Books (required)

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Kaufmann, Walter (translator)
Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Vintage (12/17/89)
ISBN 9780679724650

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Kaufmann, Walter (translator)
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Vintage (reissue edition 12/17/89
ISBN 9780679724629

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Kaufmann, Walter (translator)
The Will to Power
Vintage, New edition 8/12/68
ISBN 9780394704371

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Tanner editor
The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
Penguin Classics reissue edition 2/15/90
ISBN 9780140445145

Nietzsche, Kaufmann translator
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN 9780394719856

Nietzsche, Friedrich, Kaufmann translator
Thus Spoke Zaranthustra: A Book for None and All (paperback)
Penguin non-classics 3/30/78
ISBN 9780140047486

Nietzsche, Friedrich
The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner (paperback)
Vintage, 1st ed 4/12/67
9780394703695

Murphy, Tim
Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion
Univ of NY Press
ISBN 9780791450888

Readings

Michael Focault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" from "Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews"

Hans-Georg Gadamer, "The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem"

Alexander Nehamas, "A Thing is the Sum of Its Effects" from "Nietzsche: Life as Literature"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Book 1 from "Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Book 2 from "Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality"

Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Religious Life" from "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits"

Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense"