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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 193
EAN: 9781420841213
ISBN: 1420841211
Label: AuthorHouse
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: June 02, 2005
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Sales Rank: 286514
Studio: AuthorHouse
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The "Cult of the Superman" has haunted humanity throughout history, yet it was only clearly expressed in the philosophy of its modern prophet, Friedrich Nietzsche, and culminated in its fiercest supporter, the National Socialist ideology, a political religion whose main ideal and objective were the creation of a superhuman species.
By showing the link between the Nietzschean and Nazi worldviews - and more specifically the Nazi Secret Doctrine which the author calls "esoteric Nazism"- the author’s aim is to demonstrate that the Nazis were pure Nietzscheans, thus repudiating the views of some scholars who deny or undermine any link between the Nietzschean and Nazi doctrines. She endeavours to prove that the Nazi esoteric ideology was primarily an endeavour to actualise and institutionalise Nietzsche's cult of the Superman, applying it to a political system that would breed a Herrenvolk or "Master Race" in body and spirit, destined to rule the earth. Nazism was in fact greatly influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy, especially his concept of the Superman, giving it a political dimension in order to "put Nietzsche into motion" and turn the philosopher's cult from an abstract notion into a concrete reality. The S.S. (Schutzstaffeln, or "Security Squads"), Nazi Germany's racial and political elite, was indeed a self-proclaimed Nietzschean institution of Übermenschen or "Supermen" claiming to embody the creed of the Godlike man.
Thus did both Nietzsche and the Nazis call for a revival of Aryan paganism, namely the ancient Aryan esoteric tradition from India to Greece, rejecting the Jewish religion of Christianity, which they believed was a gross distortion of Christ's original teachings. Both doctrines acknowledged the Will to Power as the motor of history; both praised the qualities and values of the Superman, glorifying war, and advocating a radically aristocratic view of the world. Both Nietzsche and Nazism despised Western Judaeo-Christian Civilisation and its two products, Liberalism and Socialism, introducing a "third option" - aristocratic radicalism - between "corrupt egalitarian democracy" and the "materialist socialism of the mob". In addition, both advocated the rule of an Aryan universal "Master Race" transcending the boundaries of states and nations; and finally, both Nietzsche and the Nazis dismissed the "decadent" Jew from civilisation, considering him alien to the natural order, an incarnation of the slave morality.
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For better or for worse, for richer or poorer, this is the real Nietzsche (who is the only philosopher worthy of the name since the pre-Socratics). At last he is rescued from the preposterous distortions of some of his English interpreters, primarily the egregious Hollingdale and the even worse Kaufmann.
The book consists largely of wholesale quotations from the man himself, on various themes. I have read enough of N. to know what he is really all about and have seen most of this before, ... Read More
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_Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the Superman: Unveiling the Nazi Secret Doctrine_ by Abir Taha is a rather strange book which attempts to argue that Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher of the Superman, was in fact a Nazi (or proto-Nazi). Contrary to previous criticism of Nietzsche in English such as that of Kaufman and Hollingdale, which has presented a softened version of Nietzsche arguing that he was not a Nazi and indeed that his philosophy was in fact perverted by the Nazis, the author ... Read More
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Friedrich Nietzsche is probably best known as the philosopher who "killed" God. However, Abir Taha offers a new vision of him, one that involves the Nazi occult thought, which she details in her groundbreaking new book, Nietzsche, Prophet of Nazism: The Cult of the Superman; Unveiling the Nazi Secret Doctrine.
"From times immemorial, humanity has dreamt of creating the perfect man, the `God-man' or `Superman'. Yet this cult was only clearly expressed in the philosophy of its modern prophet, Nietzsche, ... Read More
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