I hate Jesuitism. Perhaps you do too. We stand in good company with Nietzsche and of course with Jesuit Father James Schall.
Full disclosure: I love Father Schall's work. I love Nietzsche. Both get things correct. It may be surprising that someone as "crazy" as Nietzsche would interest me, or even Catholics. Several years ago I began to believe, after reading another Jesuit's use of Nietzsche's thought in one of his essays that we Christians need to take this man seriously. Whether you agreed with the philosopher and Schall is unimportant. What is crucial is that your horizons are stretched and forced to clarify and verify what we know to be true. Nietzsche means to be provocative, even nasty, but to dismiss him is wrongheaded.
Father Schall published an essay "On the Art of Jesuitism" looking at Nietzsche's experience of Jesuits and their approach. You will be challenged in what both philosophers have to say.
Father James V. Schall, SJ, is a professor at Georgetown University and a well-published author. Father Schall is due to retire from GU.
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