David Ohana

Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780367584566
• ISBN-10: 0367584565
• Artikelnr.: 69892643

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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