Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. The Historian and the Legacy of Nietzsche
2. Germany and the Battle over Nietzsche,
1890-1914
3. The Not-So-Discrete Nietzscheanism of the
Avant-garde
4. Nietzscheanism Institutionalized
5. Zarathustra in the Trenches: The Nietzsche
Myth, World War I, and the
Weimar Republic
6. Nietzschean Socialism: Left and Right
7. After the Death of God: Varieties of
Nietzschean Religion
8. Nietzsche in the Third Reich
9. National Socialism and the Nietzsche Debate:
Kulturkritik, Ideology, and History
10. Nietzscheanism, Germany, and Beyond

Afterword: Nietzsche and Nazism: Some
Methodological and Historical Reflections

Index

About the Author

Steven E. Aschheim is Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923 (1982).

Reviews

"A model of academic scholarship--highly informative yet accessible even to the lay reader. . . . Especially insightful is Aschheim's balanced treatment of whether Nietzsche can be seen to have been a proto-Nazi or whether the Nazi's claiming him as such is justified."--"Library Journal