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Nietzsche's Affirming Negation of Christianity

To think with Nietzsche is to think against him.¹ He would have been intrigued, then, by recent claims that he was ultimately a Christian thinker.² The force of his invective against Christianity remains such, however, that a strong argument along these lines might seem hard to sustain; and yet Nietzsche's conceptions of individual greatness and human well-being amount to much more than the plain repudiation of Christian ideals for which they are all-too-easily taken.³ Even while he cursed the religious patrimony of the West, Nietzsche affirmed its crucial importance for shaping and developing the culture and spirit by which religion...