Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology

ISBN-13: 9781138360105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

David Ohana

Opis

This book explores the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche’s work on the formation of Jewish Political Theology during the first half of the twentieth century. It maps the many ways in which early Jewish thinkers grappled with Nietzsche’s powerful ideas about politics, morality, and religion in the process of forging a new and modern Jewish culture.

Spis treści

Introduction: Religious Heretics – Six Characters in Search of God  Part I: Fin de Siecle Hebrew Nietzscheanism  1. "It would be a good thing if the god of Zarathustra were the God of Israel"  2. Bereavement, Breakdown and the Great Heresy  Part II: Nietzschean Religious Jews  3. A Nietzschean Hassid Taken to Treblinka  4. Zarathustra Faces Mount Sinai  Part III: The Resurrection of Myth 5. "It came over me like a revelation"  6. Zarathustra or Messiah?  Part IV: Nietzsche in the Holy Land 7. The Nietzschian Ethos and the Canaanite Spirit  8. Hebrew Hellenism  Summary  Bibliography

O autorze

David Ohana is a full professor of History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, where he founded and directed the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures. His affiliations have included the Sorbonne, Harvard, Berkeley, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.