How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Spoilsports: Introduction 1. Beyond the Gothic Line: Lucca 1943-44 The Chosen Few Standard Positions of Nietzsche Reception Seduction of Youth The Blue Light Magic of Letters The School of Higher Ignorance 2. Painstaking Care and Class Warfare: Pisa 1948 On the Joy of Being a Communist Comrade Job Le goût de l'archive Everyone Else's Nietzsche Academics in the War of Position Travels in Germany Drinking, Smoking, Reading 3. Operation Nietzsche: Florence 1958 Off the Beaten Track Beauty and Horror The Other Library Crossing over the Abyss Dangerous Papers The Italian Job 4. Over the Wall and into the Desert: Weimar 1961 No Suspicious Traces The Air in Weimar The Craft of Reading Nietzsche Is a Disease The Knight of the Woeful Figure The Politics of Facts Down with the Philosophers! 5. Waiting for Foucault: Cerisy-la-Salle 1972 Alone Against the Nietzsche Mafia Against Interpretation Watching TV in Reinhardsbrunn The Ostracized Thinker Nietzsche's Dirty Secret Death of an Author Quote Unquote 6. Burn After Reading: Berlin 1985 Anarchy of Atoms The Red Brigades of Textual Criticism Nietzsche in Paperback The Great Conspiracy Philology Degree Zero The Ring of Being Notes Bibliography Index

Philipp Felsch is Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt University, Berlin.

"With erudition and great literary verve, Philipp Felsch tells a fascinating story that would seem too implausible to be true, except it is. This book is based on extensive and absolutely solid scholarship, which is deployed in an attractive and easily comprehensible way. It is full of unexpected historical information, telling observations, and intriguing suggestions, and it is a genuine pleasure to read. Given the general cultural importance of Nietzsche during the past sixty years, it should be of interest not only to philosophers, but more widely to anyone concerned with cultural studies, intellectual history or, indeed, the history and politics of the second half of the twentieth century."
Raymond Geuss, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge
 
"Most accounts of Friedrich Nietzsche cut off in 1890, at the fateful moment when he descended into what many think was madness. But of course one's life as a writer usually only really begins well after one has passed away, in the way that a legacy is shaped by future generations. This is especially the case with Nietzsche. In this insightful and ground-breaking study, Felsch helps us understand how Nietzsche became who he is today: a recuperated thinker, a philosophical inspiration to countless readers in the twenty-first century. This is intellectual history at its very best."
John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
 
"Nietzsche proclaimed himself 'the unfashionable one'. But few philosophers have suffered (or enjoyed) such dramatic changes of reputation, plunging in the aftermath of the Second World War because of the taint of Nazism and then rising again after rediscovery by Paris postmodernists. Focusing on two Italians who spent decades doggedly producing a comprehensive edition of Nietzsche's writing, Felsch has produced a quirky tour de force of reception history."
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor, Australian Catholic University, author of The Shortest History of