David Strauss: The Confessor and the Writer

"David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer" attacks David Strauss's «The Old and the New Faith: A Confession,» which Nietzsche holds up as an example of the German thought of the time. He paints Strauss's «New Faith»– a scientifically-determined universal mechanism based on the progression of history—as a vulgar reading of history in the service of a degenerate culture. Nietzsche polemically attacks not only the book but also Strauss as a Philistine of pseudo-culture.