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Nietzsche the elitist individualist, or Nietzsche the social critic? Nietzsche the universal existentialist, or Nietzsche the militant nationalist? "Become what you are," or "the will to power"? These are some of the questions relating to the influence of the "un-timely" German thinker and poet upon the various ideological movements of the twentieth century, ranging from fascism on the right to anarchist socialism on the left. While on the political sides (both right and left) the claims and disclaims to Nietzsche have often resulted from distorted editions and quotations taken out of the context of his works, the intellectual followers of Nietzsche often saw it necessary to abandon their "teacher" in the face of the realities of the twentieth-century political and social developments. No other group of intellectuals (with otherwise no common denominator but that of their revolt against the political and cultural conservatism of their time) could relate so jointly to one spiritual ancestor as the German Expressionists did to Friedrich Nietzsche. Therefore, when at the beginning of the famous Expressionism debate of the 1930s Gyorgy Lukacs made the claim that Expressionism had been

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Author

Taylor, Seth

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110853414

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Art