Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology by David Ohana

Author:David Ohana
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

6 Zarathustra or Messiah?

The Jewish Zarathustra?

Echoes of the aesthetic revolution created by Nietzsche reached the German-Jewish youth, Gerhardt Scholem, who, between chapters of the Bible and portions of the Talmud that he studied under the guidance of the orthodox rabbi Isaac Bleichrode, also hungrily devoured the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Hugo Hofmannsthal, Stefan George, and, needless to say, Nietzsche. In one of the early entries in his diary, in November 1914, Scholem identified aestheticism with Nietzsche:

Aestheticism! Oh this word, an abyss on whose opposite side is nothingness. Aestheticism, by which of course is meant self-conscious aestheticism, is the dying man’s last shivers and final attempt at life.1

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