“This text is a dramatic battlefield. Nietzsche tries to argue for rejecting the Crucifixion in general terms, referring to the stupidity of all persecutors “in the history of the world” (my italics). Obviously, since he was talking about Christians, he… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share Image
“Alessandro Manzoni, who based his conception on a different awareness of Christianity and of the mechanisms governing the mob and desire. As a young man Nietzsche admired Manzoni's masterpiece I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]; at least, he said so, though… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share
“This text is a dramatic battlefield. Nietzsche tries to argue for rejecting the Crucifixion in general terms, referring to the stupidity of all persecutors… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share Image
“Alessandro Manzoni, who based his conception on a different awareness of Christianity and of the mechanisms governing the mob and desire. As a young man Nietzsche admired Manzoni's masterpiece I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]; at least, he said so, though the results are not apparent.63 Girard, however, was not thinking about what Nietzsche actually produced, so much as what he… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share
“for two thousand years, decided to repeat the anthropological process leading to divinization. The doctrine that comes “from being burned at the stake” may… — Giuseppe Fornari Copy Share Image
