The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany - (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) by Steven E Aschheim (Paperback)

About the Book

"One of the most important works of German and European intellectual history published in years. . . . It will be welcomed by intellectual historians as a long overdue history of the multivalent reception and reworking of Nietzsche."--Jeffrey Herf, author of "Reactionary Modernism"

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

"One of the most important works of German and European intellectual history published in years. . . . It will be welcomed by intellectual historians as a long overdue history of the multivalent reception and reworking of Nietzsche."--Jeffrey Herf, author of Reactionary Modernism

Review Quotes

"A model of academic scholarship--highly informative yet accessible even to the lay reader. . . . Especially insightful is Aschheim's balanced treatment of whether Nietzsche can be seen to have been a proto-Nazi or whether the Nazi's claiming him as such is justified."--"Library Journal

About the Author

Steven E. Aschheim is Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923 (1982).