Under the working title “Nietzsche’s Anti-Semitism,” Professor Holub has been writing a book for the past six months that deals with Nietzsche’s views on, and relationship to, Jews and Judaism.
His central contention is that this topic has been misunderstood in the past because observers have failed to pay sufficient attention to the historical context in which Nietzsche formulated his thoughts. By explaining the kinds of discourses to which Nietzsche was responding, and by exploring his personal involvement with Judeophobic tendencies in his time, Holub is able to correct the shortcomings of previous scholarship and make sense of contradictions in Nietzsche’s comments on modern Jewry.
He is working on the last of six chapters in this project and will be presenting his findings to the German Club for discussion.