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University of California Press

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany

1890 - 1990
by Steven E. Aschheim (Author)
Paperback
Price: $33.95 / £29.00
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 337
ISBN: 9780520085558
Trim Size: 6 x 9
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About the Book

Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics.

About the Author

Steven E. Aschheim is Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923 (1982).

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. The Historian and the Legacy of Nietzsche
2. Germany and the Battle over Nietzsche,
1890-1914
3. The Not-So-Discrete Nietzscheanism of the
Avant-garde
4. Nietzscheanism Institutionalized
5. Zarathustra in the Trenches: The Nietzsche
Myth, World War I, and the
Weimar Republic
6. Nietzschean Socialism: Left and Right
7. After the Death of God: Varieties of
Nietzschean Religion
8. Nietzsche in the Third Reich
9. National Socialism and the Nietzsche Debate:
Kulturkritik, Ideology, and History
10. Nietzscheanism, Germany, and Beyond

Afterword: Nietzsche and Nazism: Some
Methodological and Historical Reflections

Index

Reviews

"One of the most important works of German and European intellectual history published in years. . . . It will be welcomed by intellectual historians as a long overdue history of the multivalent reception and reworking of Nietzsche."—Jeffrey Herf, author of Reactionary Modernism