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    Bergson and Nietzsche on religion : critique, immanence, and affirmation
    In Alexandre Lefebvre & Melanie Allison White (eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Duke University Press. 2012.
    This co-authored chapter offers a reconstruction of Bergson's conception of the relationship between the political and religion focusing on "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion". Bergson's claims and arguments are related to those of Nietzsche with a focus on the themes of critique, immanence and affirmation.
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    This paper discusses the accounts given of the nature of religious affectivity by Nietzsche, Otto and Bataille and pursues their shared claim as to the primacy of the affective dimension of religion over its conceptual, doctrinal and moral elements and to the development of a religious critique of Christianity. The first section clarifies the nature of Nietzsche’s religiosity and reconstructs his critique of Christianity from this perspective. In subsequent sections Nietzsche’s critique of Chris…Read more
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    A critical evaluation of Heidegger's conception of natural life based on a review of recent work on the topic.