Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism

Hardback

Main Details

Title Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert C. Holub
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780691167558
ClassificationsDewey:193
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 20 October 2015
Publication Country United States

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

Author Biography

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.

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"[A] deft, cogent presentation."--Choice "The sober investigation of unpublished documents, an endeavor Holub conducts with enthusiasm, is surely a great service to the historical literature, and Nietzsche's Jewish Problem will likely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