%0 Journal Article %A Van Beeck, Evelien %T Nietzsches tover %D 2021 %J Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, %V 113 %N 4 %P 515-531 %@ 2352-1244 %R https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2021.4.006.VANB %K Nietzsche %K metaphor %K second naivety %K second life %K madman %K literary character %K re-enchantment %K disenchantment %I Amsterdam University Press, %X Abstract Enchanting Nietzsche: On ‘god is dead’ and new life For a long time, Nietzsche was considered by his contemporaries primarily as a literary man. In philosophy and theology, the death of God nevertheless found resonance in the secularization debate. In this article I take a different path and will introduce a similar autopsy in the dis-re-enchantment debate. To this end, I revert mainly to the literary metaphors in Nietzsche’s work, of course without ignoring its philosophical (and theological) value. First, I retranslate some echoes of Nietzsche’s word from the secularization debate into the disenchantment debate. Here I note that this retranslation requires a shift from cultural to personal history. This provides me with two new, unexpected echoes of Nietzsche’s word. It also places radical questions on the current disenchantment debate. %U https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/ANTW2021.4.006.VANB