Nietzsche, Democracy and Transcendence

Van Tongeren, Paul

dc.contributor.author	Van Tongeren, Paul
dc.date.accessioned	2007-05-10T11:02:34Z
dc.date.available	2007-05-10T11:02:34Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description.abstract	Socialism, utilitarianism and democracy are, according to Nietzsche, secularised versions of Christianity. They have continued the monomaniac one-sidedness of the Christian idea of what a human being is and should be, and they have even strengthened this monomania through its ‘immanentisation’. The article shows that this ‘immanentisation’ is of crucial importance for Nietzsche's critique of democracy. This critique may suggest that Nietzsche's alternative for the disappeared Christian faith is not only a more radical rupture from the religious past, but also a re-interpretation or recreation of the notion of transcendence implied in that faith.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Van Tongeren, P 2007, 'Nietzsche, Democracy and Transcendence', South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, issue 1, pp. 5-16. [http://www.ajol.info/journal_index.php?jid=211]	en
dc.identifier.issn	0258-0136
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/2352
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Philosophical Society of Southern Africa	en
dc.rights	Philosophical Society of Southern Africa	en
dc.subject	Socialism & Christianity	en
dc.subject	Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900	en
dc.subject	Utilitarianism	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Philosophers
dc.subject.lcsh	Transcendence (Philosophy)
dc.subject.lcsh	Democracy
dc.title	Nietzsche, Democracy and Transcendence	en
dc.type	Article	en