Nietzsche and Race - Hardcover

by Marc de Launay (Author), Sylvia Gorelick (Translator)

A definitive debunking of the "Nietzsche as Nazi" caricature.

The caricature of Friedrich Nietzsche as a proto-Nazi is still with us, having originated with his own Nazi sister, Elisabeth Förster, who curated Nietzsche's disparate texts to suit her own purposes. In Nietzsche and Race, Marc de Launay deftly counters this persistent narrative in a series of concise and highly accessible reflections on the concept of race in Nietzsche's publications, notebooks, and correspondence. Through a fresh reading of Nietzsche's core philosophical project, de Launay articulates a new understanding of race in Nietzsche's body of work free from the misunderstanding of his detractors.

Author Biography

Marc de Launay is a fellow researcher of German philosophy at the CNRS and a prolific translator of German poetry and philosophy. Sylvia Gorelick is a PhD student in comparative literature at New York University and translator of many works, including Nietzsche's Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit, also published by the University of Chicago Press.