Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
By (Author) Robert C. Holub
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
193
Physical Properties
Hardback
296
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
Description
For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The increasingly popular view today is that Nietzsche was not only completely free
Reviews
"[A] deft, cogent presentation."--Choice "The sober investigation of unpublished documents, an endeavor Holub conducts with enthusiasm, is surely a great service to the historical literature, and Nietzsche's Jewish Problem will likely become the definitive work on its subject."--Jewish Review of Books
Author Bio
Robert C. Holub is Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of German at Ohio State University and former chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The author of several books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literary, cultural, and intellectual history, he is also the editor of editions of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil.
