Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews - Softcover

Yovel, Yirmiyahu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745620337 ISBN 13: 9780745620336

Publisher: Polity, 1998

Synopsis

An important book.

About this title

About the Author:

Yirmiyahu Yovel is Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hans Jonas Professor at the Graduate Faculty, the New School for Social Research, New York. He is the author of Spinoza and Other Heretics (Princeton, 1989).

Review:

In an ironic reversal of standard images, Yovel sees Nietzsche as the systematic and dialectical thinker of Judaism, while Hegel appears to him far less systematic and far less consistent over time in his views of the Jews. . . . This is an important book. Highly recommended. --G. Zoeller, Choice

Yirmiyahu Yovel's Dark Riddle is a well-crafted and much-needed contribution to three scholarly literatures: on Hegel, on Nietzsche, and on the situation and the perception of the Jewish people in nineteenth-century Europe. Yovel shows precisely how Judaism and the Jews were thematized in the work of two influential philosophers. His deep going study of Nietzsche, in particular, is a surprise, setting a much misunderstood record straight. This book is engaging and fascinating reading for anyone who cares about the interplay of philosophical ideas with the events of modern history. --Stephen Crites, Wesleyan University

Impartial and gentlemanly to the core, Yovel presents a valuable exposition of two of the thinkers, whose works span the gamut from the completion of the modern project of rationality (Hegel) to its complete rejection from an anti-modern perspective (Nietzsche). The guiding question of this exposition is how Hegel and Nietzsche view and represent Jews and Judaism. The result is remarkable. --Michael Zank, Modern Judaism

Yirmiyahu Yovel's Dark Riddle is a well-crafted and much-needed contribution to three scholarly literatures: on Hegel, on Nietzsche, and on the situation and the perception of the Jewish people in nineteenth-century Europe. Yovel shows precisely how Judaism and the Jews were thematized in the work of two influential philosophers. His deep going study of Nietzsche, in particular, is a surprise, setting a much misunderstood record straight. This book is engaging and fascinating reading for anyone who cares about the interplay of philosophical ideas with the events of modern history. --Stephen Crites, Wesleyan University

Impartial and gentlemanly to the core, Yovel presents a valuable exposition of two of the thinkers, whose works span the gamut from the completion of the modern project of rationality (Hegel) to its complete rejection from an anti-modern perspective (Nietzsche). The guiding question of this exposition is how Hegel and Nietzsche view and represent Jews and Judaism. The result is remarkable. --Michael Zank, Modern Judaism

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0745620337
• ISBN 13: 9780745620336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256