tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post5395949348679640582..comments2023-11-30T06:32:59.453-06:00Comments on Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: Robert Holub's book on Nietzsche and anti-semitismBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-62839810528011406822016-06-30T17:33:04.228-06:002016-06-30T17:33:04.228-06:001888 was not the "prime" of Nietzsche...1888 was not the "prime" of Nietzsche's life! The reason for thinking The Antichrist reflects incipient madness has to do with its overall content; it is easy to distinguish from the other works of 1888 in that regard. The one point I agree with is that the rude remark about Polish Jews probably does reflect less repression of the casual anti-Semitism from the 1870s, which Holub Brian Leiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-45200099810531148772016-06-21T15:09:12.464-06:002016-06-21T15:09:12.464-06:00Hi Brian,
Thanks for the response.
By "matur...Hi Brian,<br />Thanks for the response.<br /><br />By "mature" I meant that it was written by Nietzsche at the prime of his life, and by "considered" I meant that it comes from an authorizes manuscript - something Nietzsche prepared for publication, not some scrap in a notebook jotted down in a moment of passion.<br /><br />The "incipient madness" defense, I think, Guy Elgathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06998946226379771021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-22617026586103701852016-03-27T08:06:26.148-06:002016-03-27T08:06:26.148-06:00Sorry I missed this comment and it took so long to...Sorry I missed this comment and it took so long to appear. The Antichrist is pretty clearly a work of incipient madness, so it seems odd to me to describe it as a "mature and considered judgment." It's telling that this is the only remark like this in the entire published corpus.Brian Leiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-78113411404491065782016-01-05T22:13:13.680-06:002016-01-05T22:13:13.680-06:00Thank you, Brian, for this review. It was very inf...Thank you, Brian, for this review. It was very informative.<br /><br />To me it seems that Nietzsche was an Anti-Semite malgré lui: he was rightly disgusted by it, rightly struggled to fight it, but he sometimes just could not hold it down.<br /><br />An instance of this which I recently read again is this: "We would not want to associate with the 'first Christians' any more than Guy Elgathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06998946226379771021noreply@blogger.com