Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy

Table of contents

• Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• A Note on Sources and List of Abbreviations xi
• Contributors xiii
• Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? xvii
• Introduction 1
• Part One - In Theory 17
• 1: How to De-Nazify Nietzsche's Philosophical Anthropology? 19
• 2: Misinterpretation as the Author's Responsibility (Nietzsche's Fascism, for Instance) 47
• 3: Experiences with Nietzsche Wolfgang Müller-Lauter 66
• 4: Nietzsche and “hitler” 90
• 5: Nietzsche and the Jews 107
• 6: Nietzche Contra Wagner on the Jews 126
• 7: Between the Cross and the Swastika: a Nietzschean Perspective 144
• Part Two - In Practice 171
• 8: Ecce Caesar: Nietzsche's Imperial Aspirations 173
• 9: A Question of Responsibility: Nietzsche with Hölderlin at War, 1914–1946 196
• 10: The Elisabeth Legend: the Cleansing of Nietzsche and the Sullying of His Sister 215
• 11: Nietzsche, Mussolini, and Italian Fascism 235
• 12: Nietzsche and the Fascist Dimension: the Case of Ernst Jünger 263
• 13: A Godfather Too: Nazism as a Nietzschean “experiment” 291
• 14: Critique as Apologetics: Nolte's Interpretation of Nietzsche 301
• Works of Nietzsche Cited 321
• Select Bibliography 323
• Index 333

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