Nietzsche and the Nazis (Was Re: aesthetics)

[Thomas Seay]

Justin, maybe you know something about this, having
studied under Kaufman.  It's been a long time since
I have read anything biographical on Nietzche but
wasn't his sister the one that drew together the notes
for "Will to Power" and didn't she and her
proto-fascist husband have something to do with his
later appropriation by the Nazis?

Thomas
--- Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Justin Schwartz:
> > >                                                 
>               ... An
> > > author, especially (as Andrew Kliman reminds us)
> a dead one, cannot be 
> >held
> > > responsible for every vile misuse of his words.
> Please, let's talk about
> > > Nietzsche's views, but leavr the Nazis out of
> it.
> >
> >The bad readings of a writer are still part of the
> reading.
> >To exclude them is to miss something, maybe
> something very
> >important.
> >
> 
> Sure, but we were talking about Nietzsche's views,
> and whether you could pin 
> the Nazis on him. Their "readings," such as they
> were, of that odd fish are 
> part of political history, not the history of
> philosophy. They pinned 
> themselves onto him--in my view with less
> justification even than the way 
> the Stalinists pinnedthemselves on Marx.
> 
> jks
> >-- Gordon
> >
> 
> 
>
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