نيتشه، الفيلسوف والسياسي (Nietzsche, der Philosoph und Politiker)

مقدمة

Baeumler’s short book of 1931 appeared in the popular Reclam series and accompanied his edition of Nietzsche’s works for Kröner. It presents Nietzsche as a political thinker whose central idea is the will to power, interpreted as a heroic, warlike realism and as a preparation for a coming Germanic Reich. Baeumler declared the doctrine of eternal recurrence a private, unimportant part of Nietzsche’s thought and relied heavily on the compilation “The Will to Power” assembled by the Nietzsche Archive. After 1933 the book became the standard academic text of the National Socialist appropriation of Nietzsche. Heidegger and, from a Marxist side, Georg Lukács criticised it; Mazzino Montinari (1982) showed how much its reading depended on the archive’s compilation and on selective quotation.