Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: History Is Personal
- Prologue: Original Attributes, 425 B.C.–A.D. 1765
- I L'Âge des Ombres, 1765–1790s
- II Textual Salvation from Social Degeneration, 1790s–1808
- III Alternate Idealizations, 1807–1885
- Epilogue: Destinies Reconsidered, 1885–2004
- Conclusion: The Intersection of the Personal, the Philosophical, and the Political
- Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue: Destinies Reconsidered, 1885–2004
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: History Is Personal
- Prologue: Original Attributes, 425 B.C.–A.D. 1765
- I L'Âge des Ombres, 1765–1790s
- II Textual Salvation from Social Degeneration, 1790s–1808
- III Alternate Idealizations, 1807–1885
- Epilogue: Destinies Reconsidered, 1885–2004
- Conclusion: The Intersection of the Personal, the Philosophical, and the Political
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE INFLUENCE OF NIETZSCHE on successors such as Oswald Spengler and the misappropriation of Nietzsche's thought are well documented both as Zeitgeist and a foreshadowing of dark things to come. “The late nineteenth-century development of a ‘post-liberal mood’ has long been recognized as a cultural and political watershed,” argues Steven E. Aschheim:
Historians have variously labeled this “change in the public spirit of Europe” [footnotes Mosse] as the revolt against positivism and materialism, as a generational rebellion against the liberal bourgeoisie, as the era of the discovery of the unconscious, and as the age of irrationalism and neo-Romanticism. Underlying and often accompanying these tendencies was the emergence of a full-blown modernism. This self-conscious, though painful, rupture with the past; its fundamental questioning of established limits, authority, and tradition; and its insistence on self-creation and the subjective dimension of meaning was similarly informed by obvious Nietzschean characteristics.
The Nazi Appropriation of Nietzsche and Indology
The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the transformation of Nietzsche in Germany into the ultimate volkische hero, particularly in works such as Nietzsche und die Romantik (Nietzsche and Romanticism, 1905), by Karl Joël. This work was published by Eugen Diederichs, the influential publisher who coined the term “New Romanticism” to describe the “Dionysian” gatherings of activists who celebrated both the German Geist and occult mysticism at his Jena home. Joël's book depicts Nietzsche as a romantic profoundly affected by emotion, morality, the sorrow of the world, and a lust for the infinite, and portrays his will to power as the means for penetrating the infinite.
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