Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,3 (1997) 1-25
Keywords:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
;
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Hegel, who considered European culture to be the core of world history and essentially Christian, attributed to the Jews a role in the formation of Christianity, after which Jews became functionless, though enduring, appendages, cut off from the development of history. Nietzsche considered ancient "Temple" Judaism as the source of Christianity, which he despised; he admired the Jews of the diaspora, seeing in them the attributes of mind and character necessary for carrying out the anti-liberal, anti-Christian cultural revolution he advocated. Whereas Hegel would tolerate Jewish assimilation to European Christian culture, Nietzsche looked to the Jews to serve as the vanguard in a campaign to cleanse European culture of Christian slavish values. Hegel was essentially tolerant of antisemitism, whereas Nietzsche truly scorned it.
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