Six Degrees of Nietzsche

Shedd,

I read S.'s post in exactly the same manner, as though it was anti- the title "nietzsche and theology" and then by the end it was in favor of it.

Then I went back to the beginning and on a second reading decided that he wasn't really negative about it, but actually commending it for its ability to simultaneously stir the pot and remain true to what it was trying to denote (as opposed to St Nietzsche, which was too far, and Nietzsche or Theology which was too bland). One way or another, his post had a nice narrative flow that keeps you guessing until the end and sort of rewrites the beginning in light of the end...kind of like a Bergman film, or the Paschal Triduum of Christ.

In any case, your assessment that the title is a good one for now gets my vote. I will sign off with one of my new favorite Derrida quotes that I lifted from Tom Carlson's Indiscretion (which is a study of Dionysius the Areopagite in light of postmodern and post-Heideggerian concerns over death, and thus engages Jean-Luc Marion, who while also engaging Derrida and Dionysius, engages Nietzsche in The Idol and Distance, thus remaining in some way relevant to the current title of this blog):

"Less than for any other name, save "God"--and for good reason, since their association here is probably not fortuitous--is it possible to attribute to the name "death," and above all to the expression "my death," a concept or a reality that would constitute the object of an indisputably determining experience."