Nietzsche and Zion

Jacob Golomb

Published by Cornell University Press 2004

Nietzsche and Zion

Jacob Golomb

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501727214

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"Nietzsche's ideas were widely disseminated among and appropriated by the first Hebrew Zionist writers and leaders. It seems quite appropriate, then, that the first Zionist Congress was held in Basle, where Nietzsche spent several years as a professor...

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Jacob Golomb is Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Nietzsche's Enticing Psychology of Power and In Search of Authenticity. He is editor of Nietzsche and the Austrian Culture and coeditor of Nietzsche and Jewish Culture; Nietzsche, The Godfather of Fascism?; and Nietzsche and Depth Psychology. He also acts as the Editor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University Magnes Press and is director of the Center for Austrian Studies at that university.

Reviews

Allan Arkush, author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment:

Nietzsche and Zion represents the most comprehensive effort yet on the part of any scholar to survey the impact of Nietzsche's thought on the intellectual development of a variety of crucial Zionist thinkers in Central and Eastern Europe. Jacob Golomb is singularly well equipped to undertake this effort. His knowledge of the Nietzschean corpus is very thorough. He displays intimate knowledge of the lives and minds of each of the main figures in the book, illuminating the ways in which some of them borrowed from Nietzsche even as they abandoned him.

Sander L. Gilman, Director, Program in Jewish Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago:

Jacob Golomb's Nietzsche and Zion explores a half-hidden dialogue between the ghost of Friedrich Nietzsche and the founders and proponents of Zionism. Given the misuse of Nietzsche's thought by the Nazis, Golomb's book helps us to better understand its role in shaping the modern world.

Marion Fischel:

The list of Zionist thinkers who were also Nietzscheans reads like a Who's Who of early Zionism. Golomb explains that the 'existential transfiguration' from 'the last Jew to the first Hebrew' (as Yosef Berdichevski put it) was in great measure influenced by Nietzsche's thought. Thus, Golomb reconstructs the Zionist narrative in opposition to the deconstruction of the new historians.

Nietzsche's repudiation of anti-Semitism is well known. What has been less well appreciated, until now, is the extent to which founding proponents of Zionism incorporated Nietzschean motifs into their thinking. In this fine book, veteran Nietzsche scholar Golomb examines the presence of the German philosopher's ideas in the thinking of six early Zionists. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate and above.

Nietzsche and Zion presents an interpretation of Zionist thought showing that the impact of Nietzsche was far more complex than is generally acknowledged.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
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Introduction: Nietzsche and Zionism? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Jewish Studies; Philosophy

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Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501727214