1st Edition

Nietzsche and Jewish Culture

Edited By Jacob Golomb Copyright 1997
296 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

Friedrich Nietzsche occupies a contradictory position in the history of ideas: he came up with the concept of a master race, yet an eminent Jewish scholar like Martin Buber translated his Also sprach Zarathustra into Polish and remained in a lifelong intellectual dialogue with Nietzsche. Sigmund Freud admired his intellectual courage and was not at all reluctant to admit that Nietzsche had... Read more
Introduction Part I Nietzsche’s relations to Jews, Judaism and Jewish culture 1 NIETZSCHE, ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST 2 A POST-HOLOCAUST RE-EXAMINATION OF NIETZSCHE AND THE JEWS: VIS-À-VIS CHRISTENDOM AND NAZISM 3 “MONGOLS, SEMITES AND THE PURE-BRED GREEKS”: NIETZSCHE’S HANDLING OF THE RACIAL DOCTRINES OF HIS TIME 4 HEINE, NIETZSCHE AND THE IDEA OF THE JEW 5 NIETZSCHE ON JUDAISM AND EUROPE 6 NIETZSCHE AND THE JEWS: THE STRUCTURE OF AN AMBIVALENCE CONTENTS Part II Nietzsche’s Jewish reception 7 NIETZSCHE, KAFKA AND LITERARY PATERNITY 8 NIETZSCHE AND THE MARGINAL JEWS 9 FREUD IN HIS RELATION TO NIETZSCHE 10 MAHLER AND THE VIENNA NIETZSCHE SOCIETY 11 ZARATHUSTRA’S APOSTLE: MARTIN BUBER AND THE JEWISH RENAISSANCE 12 DIASPORAS

Biography

Jacob Golomb teaches philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and acts as Philosophical Editor of the Hebrew University Magnes Press.