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Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
Hardback
Main Details
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Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Robert C. Holub
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:296 | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Western philosophy - c 1600 to c 1900 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780691167558
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Classifications | Dewey:193 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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Publication Date |
20 October 2015 |
Publication Country |
United States
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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Reviews"[A] deft, cogent presentation."--Choice "The sober investigation of unpublished documents, an endeavor Holub conducts with enthusiasm, is surely a great service to the historical literature, and Nietzsche's Jewish Problem will likely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
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