Nietzsche on the Poverty and Possibility of Human Love
Jesus, Dionysus, Zarathustra
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7177686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melanie Shepherd (0000-0002-1791-8016, 2763 Misericordia University Misericordia University Philosophy 301 Lake Street Dallas USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-102 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nietzsche Studien (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0342-1422 • E-ISSN: 1613-0790 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/nietzstu-2024-0021 |
| OpenAlex | W4405483195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
Nietzsche’s portrait of Jesus as a lovesick knower of the heart in BGE 269 aligns the problems of Christian love with some of Nietzsche’s critical remarks about erotic love in the Free Spirit works. In this paper, I will examine the nuances of Nietzsche’s criticisms of erotic and of Christian love and demonstrate that in their failures, they also contain potential for forms of love that Nietzsche celebrates: self-love, friendship, and amor fati. Finally, I consider Beyond Good and Evil in the context of Book IX, arguing that the chapter does not resolve with Dionysus as Nietzsche’s final response to Jesus, but instead that the duality between them marks different kinds of deficiencies regarding love, to which Nietzsche responds with his Zarathustra
Political science · Poverty · Theology · Zoroaster · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Autonomy, Self‐Respect, and Self‐Love
Finding the Ubermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works
Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game
The Affirmation of Life
Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism
Kant, Nietzsche and the idealization of friendship into nihilism
Swanton and Nietzsche on Self-Love
Nietzsche's Goal of Friendship
Nietzsche and Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge
Nietzsche on Friendship
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche and Friendship
Nietzsche and Amor Fati
Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion
Self-Love in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |