Nietzsche and Christianity [antikvár]

PrefaceReading Nietzsche seems easy. Straightforwardly, blow by blow, he marshals his evident observations, his exposures of lies and evasions, his provocative attacks upon all things men prize, his forecasts of doom in the rise of modern nihilism, the "magic of extremism" in his statements, and his superior insights.Humanitarian believers in the gospel of enlightenment have falsely claimed him for themselves, robbing him of his depth. The Nazis, with whom his turn of mind had nothing in common, took a large part of their vocabulary from him. He has also been used as a main source for the language of modern despair, for the conversational twists and turns of an irresponsible intellectualism. All of this has contravened the proper sense of his writings, seductive though they surely are.This man launched what may be the most merciless assault upon Christianity in our time. Yet an astonishing fact is notable in this assault: Nietzsche, the pastor's son, knew and admitted the Christian basis of his real vii