"The Contradiction at the Heart of the World": Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Detonation of Denotation

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This investigation represents what one could call an exercise in postmodern reader-response criticism. In it, I address the stylistic mechanisms by which contradictions inherent in the character of Jesus within Nietzsche's text invoke in the reader a psychological state analogous to the one Nietzsche attributes to Jesus. This trajectory is examined as a possible device towards a non-reactive means of combating ressentiment. Implications of how language figures into such a systemically aconceptual endeavor are discussed.

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    Date
    April 15, 2010
    Extent
    89 pages
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    eng
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    electronic
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    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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    ir:1821