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

Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism DOI 10.1215/00104124-3698507 Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism. By Robert C. Holub. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 296 p. Over the last decade or so, a substantial part of the discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical thought has turned to the contexts in which it gained momentum. Indeed, the development of Nietzsche's thought, from his epistemological skepticism to his later critique of Judeo-Christian morality, in many ways reflects broader intellectual and political trends between the early 1860s and the late 1880s. Many of these trends were embedded in the culture of Imperial Germany, characterized by rapid modernization, nationalism, and Otto von Bismarck's divisive and authoritarian politics. It is in this period, especially from the late 1870s onward, that we can also witness a shift in anti-Semitism from everyday cultural prejudice to a distinct political program. Even though the latter's electoral success remained rather limited until the 1920s, it received support from prominent public intellectuals, such as Heinrich von Treitschke, during the so-called Berlin Antisemitismusstreit of the 1880s, and it linked back to long-standing cultural tropes of exclusion that played into prejudices against Jews and Judaism common among the German Bildungsbürgertum from the early 1800s onward. It is not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

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

Comparative Literature , Volume 68 (4) – Dec 1, 2016

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DOI 10.1215/00104124-3698507 Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism. By Robert C. Holub. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 296 p. Over the last decade or so, a substantial part of the discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical thought has turned to the contexts in which it gained momentum. Indeed, the development of Nietzsche's thought, from his epistemological skepticism to his later critique of Judeo-Christian morality, in many ways reflects broader intellectual and political trends between the early 1860s and the late 1880s. Many of these trends were embedded in the culture of Imperial Germany, characterized by rapid modernization, nationalism, and Otto von Bismarck's divisive and authoritarian politics. It is in this period, especially from the late 1870s onward, that we can also witness a shift in anti-Semitism from everyday cultural prejudice to a distinct political program. Even though the latter's electoral success remained rather limited until the 1920s, it received support from prominent public intellectuals, such as Heinrich von Treitschke, during the so-called Berlin Antisemitismusstreit of the 1880s, and it linked back to long-standing cultural tropes of exclusion that played into prejudices against Jews and Judaism common among the German Bildungsbürgertum from the early 1800s onward. It is not

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