Crooked Confessions -Ian C Edwards

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This groundbreaking book argues for a rebellious, transformative philosophy, based on becoming the “Sanctified Devil,” an archetypal figure who transgresses and transcends ideas of good and evil through personal transformation and magical practice. Beginning with Nietzsche’s “Twilight of the Idols” and “The Antichrist,” “Crooked Confessions” describes Nietzsche’s method of doing philosophy with a “hammer” and then posits a new method of philosophizing with a “scythe.” This paves the way for laying down the foundations for an ontology of what Chumbley called “the Geminus.” Edwards explores the notion of a “Sorcerous Sisyphus,” an ethics based on the thought of Georges Bataille, where the reader is invited to “transform the Crucified Christ into happy laughter”, put forward a metaphysics of Promethean Fire, show how the Sanctified Devil advances Nietzsche’s understanding of the Übermensch…