Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German life and politics.
Steven E. Aschheimis Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author ofBrothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923(1982).
One of the most important works of German and European intellectual history published in years. . . . It will be welcomed by intellectual historians as a long overdue history of the multivalent reception and reworking of Nietzsche. Jeffrey Herf, author ofReactionary Modernism