Nietzsche and Jewish Culture

<p>Friedrich Nietzsche occupies a contradictory position in the history of ideas: he came up with the concept of a master race yet an eminent Jewish scholar like Martin Buber translated his <em>Also sprach Zarathustra</em> into Polish and remained in a lifelong intellectual dialogue with Nietzsche. Sigmund Freud admired his intellectual courage and was not at all reluctant to admit that Nietzsche had anticipated many of his basic ideas.<br>This unique collection of essays explores the reciprocal relationship between Nietzsche and Jewish culture. It is organized in two parts: the first examines Nietzsche's attitudes towards Jews and Judaism; the second Nietzsche's influence on Jewish intellectuals as diverse and as famous as <em>Franz Kafka Martin Buber Franz Rosenzweig</em> and <em>Sigmund Freud</em>. Each carefully selected essay explores one aspect of Nietzsche's relation to Judaism and German intellectual history from Heinrich Heine to Nazism.</p>