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"God is Dead" - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886 - Discuss. In his book, The Gay Science, Nietzsche's madman ran in daylight with a lantern, through a town exclaiming, 'God is dead!' By declaring this, Nietzsche did not mean that God is literally, physically dead as the quote suggests. It actually provokes thousands of interpretations but to use the correct one, we must first investigate the philosopher's style of writing. Nietzsche wrote a series of books, in which different scenarios were conveying the same message repetitively: that God is dead. His style of writing was unique for his era in that he wrote using puns, which made his statements highly ambiguous and misleading. In addition, Nietzsche was having a mental breakdown which left him uncommunicative, so people really thought that his style showed a lot of disparity. The madman's concerns were that the concepts of religion and God were fast dying in the...

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