Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion

Tim Murphy teaches in the Department of Religion at Case Western Reserve University.

"Murphy's book should be positively acknowledged as one of the rare ones that does not attempt to use Nietzsche's writing on religion for constructive religious purposes." — International Studies in Philosophy"Murphy really tackles a significant subject, and does so in a way which will have a broad appeal. He does a very fine job exploring highly significant issues in Nietzsche interpretation and their ramifications beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries."Is Nietzsche just laying out another metaphysics, an alternative epistemology, just another competing axiology? Murphy shows that this is not what is going on at all. He gives an overview of the dispute in his comparison of the 'doctrine' vs. the 'text' approach to Nietzsche's thought. Bravo!" — George H. Leiner, editor of New Nietzsche Studies

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Introduction 1. (Re:)Reading Nietzsche on Metaphor and on Religion Nietzsche on MetaphorThe Antichrist: Madness or Maturity?(Re:)Reading Nietzsche on Religion(Re:)Reading Nietzsche Writing: "Discourse" vs. "Text" PART I. METAPHOR AND HERMENEUTICS 2. Nietzsche's Metaphor for Metaphor The Metaphor for MetaphorÜbertragung and LanguageÜbertragung and PerceptionÜbertragung and ConceptsCatechresis and Identity 3. The Structure of Metaphor Übertragung and Domains Interaction TheoryBarthes: Connotation, Cultural Codes, and DomainsMetaphor in the Text: RegistersMapping Religion: Nietzsche's Primary Metaphor DomainsCase Study I: Explicating the Aristocratic DomainCase Study II: Explicating the Dionysian DomainMapping Religion: The Secondary Domains 4. Metaphor, Interpretation, and Narrative: Elements of a Nietzschean Theory of Culture Übertragung and InterpretationInterpretation, Power, and the AgwnNarrative Representation and Historical Identity PART II. METAPHOR AND RELIGION 5. The Religious Body The Sick Body: "Religion" as Hygienic RegimeThe Priest's PharmakonMetalipsis: The Religious Errors of Causation 6. The "Retroactive Confiscations" of Judaism The "Retroactive Confiscations" of JudaismThe Metaphor Domains in Nietzsche's Rendering of JudaismThe Signifier "Jew" in the German Christian Metanarrative of European ModernityThe Jews in Nietzsche's Counternarrative of Modern European IdentityContemporary Responses to the Issues of Nietzsche's Alleged Anti-Semitism 7. Nietzsche's Metaphors for Jesus Hermeneutical PrologueJesus as MyshkinJesus as BuddhaThe Physiology of Jesus' TeachingsThe Metaphor Domains in Nietzsche's JesusContemporary Readings of Nietzsche's Jesus 8. Peter, Paul, and Nietzsche: Tracing the Signifier "Christ" through Christian History The Synoptic "Christ" as a Mistranslation of JesusThe Übertragungen of the Apostle PaulLuther as "the Second Paul" and the German Christian Discourse About ChristianityThe Ironic Emplotment of Christian History 9. Metaphor and the Death of God Metaphor and the Death of GodMetalanguage and MetaphorAgonistic Interpretation, Identity, and ReligionThe Heuristic of Metaphor: Philosophy and Metatheory NotesBibliographyIndex