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“The” Nietzsche Legacy in Germany:

1890 - 1990
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University of California Press, 1992 - Philosophy - 337 pages
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.
  

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Nietzsche influenced everyone: National Socialists, Zionists, Marxists, Protestants, Satanists and a variety of other conflicting groups. At the same time, he was despised by certain figures in all ... Read full review

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An excellent compendium and analysis of the causes that have appropriated Nietzsche as philosopher, ideologist (or anti-ideologist), and symbol. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

Germany and the Battle over Nietzsche
26
The NotSoDiscrete Nietzscheanism of
51
Nietzscheanism Institutionalized
85
The Nietzsche
128
Left and Right
164
Varieties
201
Nietzsche in the Third Reich
232
Nietzscheanism Germany and Beyond
308
Index
331
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The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890-1990
The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890-1990
S. Aschheim
Limited preview - 1994

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About the author (1992)

Steven E. Ascheim is Associate Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the author of "Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923" and "The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990". Currently he is on sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.

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Title“The” Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890 - 1990
Volume 2 of Weimar and Now : German Cultural Criticism, No 2
Issue 2 of Weimar and now / Weimar and now, ISSN 1549-1870
AuthorSteven E. Aschheim
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1992
ISBN0520078055, 9780520078055
Length337 pages
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