ABSTRACT
If Kierkegaard wishes to acknowledge the demonic in fear and trembling, in truthful responsibility to the complexities of spiritual life, and even as a way of intensifying true faith, Nietzsche positively and perversely affirms it. Of course there has been much powerfully implicit affirmation in the literature we’ve reviewed already, not least in, say, Shakespeare’s Macbeth or Dostoevsky’s Stavrogin, but Nietzsche in his own person dares to embrace the demon directly.
