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  • Date and time: Monday 6 July 2020, 1pm to 2pm
  • Location: Online event
  • Audience: Open to alumni, staff, students, the public
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

Lifelong Learning Lunchtime Lectures

Friedrich Nietzsche notoriously proclaimed that “God is dead”. This talk will investigate this striking idea and look at a range of late 19th century responses to the decline of Christian belief; from Matthew Arnold in England, through Nietzsche and Wagner in Germany, to Fyodor Dostoevsky in Russia.