The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany

The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany

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  • Author: Steven E. Aschheim
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520914803
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 374

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.


Nietzsche and Early German and Austrian Sociology

Nietzsche and Early German and Austrian Sociology

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  • Author: Franz Solms-Laubach (Graf zu.)
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 9783110181098
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.


German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

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  • Author: Marc David Baer
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 0231551789
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most prominent Muslims in Germany prior to World War II. He was renamed Israel by the Nazis and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before escaping to Switzerland. He was a gay man who never called himself gay but fought for homosexual rights and wrote queer fiction under the pen name Hans Alienus during his decades of exile. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle. Baer explores how Marcus created a unique synthesis of German, gay, and Muslim identity that positioned Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an intellectual and spiritual model. Marcus’s life offers a new perspective on sexuality and on competing conceptions of gay identity in the multilayered world of interwar and postwar Europe. His unconventional story reveals new aspects of the interconnected histories of Jewish and Muslim individuals and communities, including Muslim responses to Nazism and Muslim experiences of the Holocaust. An intellectual biography of an exceptional yet little-known figure, German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics.


Nietzsche's French Legacy

Nietzsche's French Legacy

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  • Author: Alan Schrift
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317828194
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Nietzsche, Power and Politics

Nietzsche, Power and Politics

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  • Author: Herman Siemens
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • ISBN: 3110217333
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 700

Nietzsche’s legacy for political thought is a highly contested area of research today. With papers representing a broad range of positions, this collection takes stock of the central controversies (Nietzsche as political / anti-political thinker? Nietzsche and / contra democracy? Arendt and / contra Nietzsche?), as well as new research on key concepts (power, the agon, aristocracy, friendship i.a.), on historical, contemporary and futural aspects of Nietzsche’s political thought. International contributors include well-known names (Conway, Ansell-Pearson, Hatab, Taureck, Patton, Connolly, Villa, van Tongeren) and young emerging scholars from various disciplines.


German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation

German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation

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  • Author: Lisa Marie Anderson
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9401200513
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in Germany was infused with a thoroughly messianic strain. Here, with unprecedented detail and focus, that strain is traced through the work of four important Expressionist playwrights: Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller and Franz Werfel. Moreover, these dramatists are brought into new and sustained dialogues with the theorists and philosophers of messianism who were their contemporaries: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem. In arguing, for example, that concepts like Bloch’s utopian self-encounter (Selbstbegegnung) and Benjamin’s messianic now-time (Jetztzeit) reappear as the framework for Expressionism’s staging of collective redemption in a new age, Anderson forges a previously underappreciated link in the study of Central European thought in the early twentieth century.


Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918

Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918

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  • Author: Matthew Jefferies
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1137085304
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

It has often ben suggested that artists and writers in Germany's imperial era shunned social engagement, preferring instead apolitical introspection. However, as Matthew Jefferies reveals, whether one looks at the painters, poets and architects who helped to create an official imperial identity after 1871; the cultural critics and reformers of the later 19th century; or the new generation of cultural producers that emerged in the years around 1900, the social, political and cultural were never far apart. In this attractively illustrated book, Jefferies provides a lively introduction to the principal movements in German high culture between 1871 and 1918, in the context of imperial society and politics. He not only demonstrates that Germany's 'Imperial culture' was every bit as fascinating as the much better known 'Weimar culture' of the 1920s, but argues that much of what came later has origins in the imperial period. Filling a significant gap in the current historiography, this study will appeal to all those with an interest in the rich and diverse culture of Imperial Germany.


Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation

Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation

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  • Author: Benjamin E. Sax
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004680217
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 345

This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of liturgy. It also explores how the legacy of Goethe can be used to develop new strata of religious and Jewish thought. We learn how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world.


Germany's Other Modernism

Germany's Other Modernism

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  • Author: Meike G. Werner
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • ISBN: 1640141391
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 347

Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena. The conventional wisdom is that the cultural sea change that was European modernism arose in urban centers like Berlin, Paris, Munich, and Vienna. Meike G. Werner's book, now in English translation, is a study of modernism in the provinces. Taking the small provincial city of Jena as a paradigmatic case, it re-creates the very different social and intellectual framework in which modernist experimentation occurred beyond the metropolitan centers. Invented traditions, social and spatial "liminality," and new ideas of social and aesthetic transformation combined in Jena to create a unique moment of cultural innovation. In the years leading up to the First World War, the Jena publisher Eugen Diederichs envisioned and guided the development of this alternative modernism. Taken up by young writers including Diederichs's wife Helene Voigt-Diederichs, numerous intellectual outsiders from across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and members of the Free Student movement and of Jena's Sera Circle, this "other" modernism was above all a youth movement, full of energy and bold optimism. Figures such as Rudolf Carnap, Wilhelm Flitner, Hans Freyer, Karl Korsch, and Elisabeth Busse-Wilson emerged from this Jena paradigm. Werner pieces together the story of Jena's modernism in its full richness, complexity, and inner contradictions.


The Indo-German Identification

The Indo-German Identification

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  • Author: Robert B. Robert B. Cowan
  • Publisher: Camden House
  • ISBN: 1571134638
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 238

The nineteenth-century development -- and later consequences -- of the imagined relationship between ancient India and modern German culture.