Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews

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Penn State Press, 1998 - 235 עמודים

This brilliant and absorbing study examines the image of Judaism and the Jews in the work of two of the most influential modern philosophers, Hegel and Nietzsche. Hegel was a proponent of universal reason and Nietzsche was its opponent; Hegel was a Christian thinker and Nietzsche was a self-proclaimed "Antichrist"; Hegel strove to bring modernity to its climax, and Nietzsche wanted to divert the evolution of modernity into completely different paths. In view of these conflicting attitudes and philosophical projects, how did each assess the historical role of the Jews and their place in the modern world?

The mature Hegel partly overcame the fierce anti-Jewish attitude of his youth yet continued to see Judaism as the alienation of its own new principles. Post-Christian Judaism no longer had a real history, only a contingent protracted existence, and although modern Jews deserved civil rights, Hegel saw no place for them in modernity as Jews.

Nietzsche, on the contrary, who grew to be a passionate anti-anti-Semite, admired Diaspora Jews for their power and depth and assigned them a role as Jews in curing Europe of the decadent Christian culture that their own ancestors, the second-temple Jewish "priests," had inflicted upon Europe by begetting Christianity. The ancient corrupters of Europe are thus to be its present redeemers.

Through his masterly analysis of the writings of Hegel and Nietzsche, Yovel shows that anti-Jewish prejudice can exist alongside a philosophy of reason, while a philosophy of power must not necessarily be anti-Semitic.

 

תוכן

The Young Hegel and the Spirit of Judaism
21
A Telling Silence
48
The Sublime Makes
60
The Philosophy of Religion
69
A NeverEnding Story
83
Hegels Christocentrism
97
Nietzsche and the Shadows of the Dead
105
The AntiAntiSemite
116
22
153
The Diaspora and Contemporary Jews
167
EPILOGUE
185
NOTES
197
21
200
BIBLIOGRAPHY
218
INDEX
225
זכויות יוצרים

The Antichrist
139

מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

מידע על המחבר (1998)

Yirmiyahu Yovel is Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hans Jonas Professor at the Graduate Faculty, the New School for Social Research, New York. He is the author of Spinoza and Other Heretics (Princeton, 1989).

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