The North West Passage

News:
In the Summer 2010, I will be teaching a new online course: Nietzsche and Paganism. Here’s the info:

Perhaps the most misunderstood, difficult, and notorious philosopher of the modern age is Friedrich Nietzsche, creator of such powerful ideas as the Will to Power. Accused of promoting a kind of paganism, even within his own lifetime, he certainly mounted the most powerful critique of all religious thinking ever written in the Western philosophical tradition. In this course we will examine three of his most important books very closely, and we will learn why his work remains important for the study of ethics, religion, and culture, and also why it remains dangerous.

Required Texts:
- Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, (Penguin Classics edition).
- Beyond Good and Evil, (trans. W. Kaufmann)
- The Gay Science trans. W. Kaufmann)

Recommended (but not required):
- The Portable Nietzsche (ed. W. Kaufmann).

This course is a 12-week Masters’ level course, offered through the Cherry Hill Seminary. Although it is a graduate level course, it may be audited by anyone (with my approval). Click here to find out more, or to register.

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