Nietzsche and Jewish Culture

by Jacob Golomb (Editor)

Overview

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 anticipated many of his basic ideas.
This unique collection of essays explores the reciprocal relationship between Nietzsche and Jewish culture. It is organized in two parts: the first examines Nietzsche's attitudes towards Jews and Judaism; the second Nietzsche's influence on Jewish intellectuals as diverse and as famous as Franz Kafka, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and Sigmund Freud. Each carefully selected essay explores one aspect of Nietzsche's relation to Judaism and German intellectual history, from Heinrich Heine to Nazism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134867264
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/04/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	470 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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