Nietzsche and Race

A definitive debunking of the &quote;Nietzsche as Nazi&quote; caricature. The caricature of Friedrich Nietzsche as a proto-Nazi is still with us, having originated with his own Nazi sister, Elisabeth Forster, who curated Nietzsche s disparate texts to suit her own purposes. In Nietzsche and Race, Marc de Launay deftly counters this persistent narrative in a series of concise and highly accessible reflections on the concept of race in Nietzsche s publications, notebooks, and correspondence. Through a fresh reading of Nietzsche s core philosophical project, de Launay articulates a new understanding of race in Nietzsche s body of work free from the misunderstanding of his detractors.