Nietzsche in American Literature and Thought (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Over the past hundred years Friedrich Nietzsche has proved to be one of the most fascinating and influential European thinkers on the American scene; his ideas, in recent years in particular, have had a huge impact in every field of the humanities. The essays by well-known American and German scholars collected here, commissioned especially for this book, offer for the first time an encompassing survey of American reactions to the German philosopher.