The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990

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The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990

Steven E. Aschheim

(Weimar and now : German cultural criticism / Martin Jay and Anton Kaes, general editors, 2)

University of California Press, 1994, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"First paperback printing 1994" -- T.p. verso

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Description

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.

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

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