I have to admit, Dan, that you seem to be reading a different Nietzsche
from the one I am. The Nietzsche I've read regards anti-Semites as a pack
of nasty liars and Bismark's Germany a pack of drunken, uncultured louts
(N prefers to think of himself as Polish). N despises socialism and
nationalism both, IIRC, insisting that such ideologies tend to make people
stupid. Regarding your quote from the Genealogy of Morals, to be fair one
must remember that N is referring to the Christian church fathers when he
speaks of "Jewish hatred" and not contemporary European Jews, with whom he
has no particular quibble.
When I get home this evening I'll dig up some quotes for you. I honestly
think that the evidence for N's *anti*-anti-Semitism is pretty
overwhelming, since the anti-Semites of his day were also the very same
Christians against whose morality, metaphysics, and religious chauvanism
he was arguing.
(I'll grant, though, that Nietzsche has little positive to offer to fans
of Kant.)
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
