[KC Burke]

I see what you are pointing out, but my meager background of study in this field leaves me stumbling to tie my twist back to the original starting article's contention while doing justice to your point. I'm going to have to re-read this whole thing and then reflect where the handle to this well pump is...

[cornelis]

Sorry, I may have gone a bit of topic. In any case, the deification episode is an the attempt that occurs between 14th c. Paris and 20th century Paris. When Nietzsche bemoaned the death of god he was crying about the loss of the universalizing genius which 20th century Paris is now saying we should do without.