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The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany - 1890 - 1990 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany - 1890 - 1990 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism, 2
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The twentieth century has seen countless attempts 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. In The Nietzsche Legacy in
Germany, 1890-1990, Steven Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle
of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics from the
turn of the century through the recent reunification. Beginning
with the aesthetic frenzy of fin-de-siecle European culture,
through the historical convulsions of the Weimar Republic and the
Third Reich, Nietzsche, the philosopher who hoped he would never
have disciples, emerges in Aschheim's account as a thinker whose
work crucially influenced - and was recast to fit - a multitude of
contradictory projects. Anarchists, feminists, Nazis, religious
cultists, Socialists, Marxists, vegetarians, avant-garde artists,
devotees of physical culture, and archconservatives are but some of
the groups that marched under a Nietzschean banner. Aschheim
explores the significance of Nietzsche not only for such well-known
figures as Martin Heidegger, Thomas Mann, and Carl Jung, but also
for more obscure thinkers such as the liberal Rabbi Cesar
Seligmann, who coined the phrase "the will to Judaism", and the
radical psychoanalyst and free love advocate Otto Gross. He
provides a judicious and balanced account of the link between
Nietzsche and National Socialism and explores the ubiquity of
Nietzsche within the major tensions of contemporary German history.
The philosopher's "untimely" thoughts are, as Aschheim shows, more
relevant than ever to the moral, aesthetic, and intellectual
challenges of our own age.
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