Jesus or Nietzsche

Raymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He has published thirteen other books including Justifying Law (1992), Good Sex (1993), What is the Meaning of Human Life? (2001), Happiness is Overrated (2004), Dante’s Deadly Sins (2011), and Shakespeare and Philosophy (2012). Belliotti has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the William T. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award, the Kasling Lecture Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, and the SUNY Foundation Research and Scholarship Recognition Award.

• Editorial Foreword by Olli LoukolaPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionIntroductionNietzsche’s LifeProblems of Interpretation in NietzscheMy (Mis)Interpretation of NietzscheJesus: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in ItFamily RelationsAssociating and Identifying with UndesirablesUnsettling Established RitualsInterrogating Prevailing Norms of Just DistributionMaterial MinimalismJesus and the Concept of ForgivenessNietzsche: The Nature of Our World and Our Mission in ItPerspectivismGenealogical CritiquesCrafting a Worthy SelfValuesNietzsche’s Glad TidingsMaster and Slave MoralitiesGoing Beyond Good and EvilEternal RecurrencePhilosophy and PsychologyStyle and RhetoricTragic View of LifeJesus and NietzscheFundamental Understandings of Human Beings: Unconditional Love and the Will to PowerThe Power of Unconditional LoveThe Paradoxes of Agapic LoveParental AgapeThe Will to PowerThe Last Man and The OvermanNietzsche on JesusNietzsche on St. Paul and ChristianityNietzsche’s Understanding of JesusJesus and Engagement in this WorldDaunting Normative IdealsThe Perfectionism of JesusPerfectionism and Unconditional LoveExtending Unconditional LoveUnconditional Love and AbstractionA Summary of the Perfectionism of JesusThe Ethic of Jesus and Contemporary PhilosophyJesus’ Enduring MessageThe Perfectionism of NietzscheNietzsche’s VisionAristocratic PrivilegeA Summary of the Perfectionism of NietzscheThe Perfectionism of Nietzsche and Contemporary PhilosophyJesus and Nietzsche: Toward a SynthesisNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

A subtle interpreter of both Jesus and Nietzsche. … Belliotti writes well and with conviction, and it is a refreshing to see a commentator who, where appropriate, confronts and criticizes not just Nietzsche but also Jesus forthrightly. … recommended to both Nietzsche scholars and theologians, as well as a wider range of readers who simply seek to improve their lives. Religious Studies. Volume 50 (2014)