Death of God
Talk
Daniel Gustafsson, Centre for Lifelong Learning
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Event date
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.