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.
By:
Steven E. Aschheim
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 2
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520085558
ISBN 10: 0520085558
Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Pages: 337
Publication Date: 25 February 1994
Audience:
College/higher education
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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).
Reviews for The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890 - 1990
A model of academic scholarship--highly informative yet accessible even to the lay reader. . . . Especially insightful is Aschheim's balanced treatment of whether Nietzsche can be seen to have been a proto-Nazi or whether the Nazi's claiming him as such is justified. -- Library Journal
