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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793138703321

Autore

Golomb Jacob

Titolo

Nietzsche and Zion / / Jacob Golomb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

1-5017-2721-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)

Disciplina

320.54095694

Soggetti

Zionism - Philosophy

Jewish philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Nietzsche and Zionism? -- PART I: NIETZSCHE AND POLITICAL ZIONISM -- PART II: NIETZSCHE AND CULTURAL ZIONISM -- PART III: NIETZSCHE AND SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS ZIONISM -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Select Bibliography of Secondary Works -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"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 of classical philology. This coincidence gains profound significance when we see Nietzsche's impact on the first Zionist leaders and writers in Europe as well as his presence in Palestine and, later, in the State of Israel."-from the IntroductionThe early Zionists were deeply concerned with the authenticity of the modern Jew qua person and with the content and direction of the reawakening Hebrew culture. Nietzsche too was propagating his highest ideal of a personal authenticity. Yet the affinities in their thought, and the formative impact of Nietzsche on the first leaders and writers of the Zionist movement, have attracted very little attention from intellectual historians. Indeed, the antisemitic uses to which Nietzsche's thought was turned after his death have led most commentators to assume the philosopher's antipathy to Jewish



aspirations. Jacob Golomb proposes a Nietzsche whose sympathies overturn such preconceptions and details for the first time how Nietzsche's philosophy inspired Zionist leaders, ideologues, and writers to create a modern Hebrew culture. Golomb cites Ahad Ha'am, Micha Josef Berdichevski, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Hillel Zeitlin as examples of Zionists who "dared to look into Nietzsche's abyss." This book tells us what they found.