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German Philosophy: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Red Menace

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Nietzsche's Anti-Semitism

Was Nietzsche an anti-Semite and can his work be separated from the Nazi appropriation of it? Yeah. On a personal level, no, I don't think he was invested in political anti-Semitism. But we have to wrestle with the fact that his work was appropriated by the Nazis partially due to editing of his work, but I will suggest also partially due to things that were in his work. There are parallels, at least in on the genealogy of morality, to anti-Semitism that are there. And that were easy for anti-Semites to latch on to, despite  Nietzsche's own sort of opposition to anti-Semitic.

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