Böcker av Michael Allen Gillespie

Nietzsche once remarked that some men are born posthumously. Of no one has this been truer than Nietzsche himself, and the last decade has witnessed yet another rebirth of this most protean of thinkers.

This thoughtful and stimulating work boldly takes on the task of assessing the thought of both Hegel and Heidegger. Gillespie seeks to explain how these two philosophers have tried to understand what history means when takes as a whole, and what significance history has for illuminating our essential characteristics, goals and limits.

Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Beginning with the collapse of the medieval world, it argues that from the very beginning, moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life.

In this work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled nearly all succeeding thought about the subject.