File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9807, message 95


Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 08:20:27 -0600
From: Jim Bachmeier <BACHMEIERJ-AT-law.stmarytx.edu>
Subject: Nietzsche's hatred of tarantulas and fascists -Reply


Mr. Dzenkowski, 

Your defenition of Fascism seems to simple and I am sure I am not alone
when I say that I certainly don't except the tenents of Fascism, but an
intelligent and productive conversation would certainly demand a better
defenition.

I will not, however, push the issue for I am not concerned with fascism,
but with the weakness of the slave who searches for a ruler to obey,
which you implied with your defenition.  A friend recently suggested that
for a mild literary application of Nietzsche's thought I read Hesse's
Steppenwolf. 

I have not yet finished the book, but Hesse seems to have, thus far,
shown this need to obey to be Harry Haller's most longing desire, and he
has found his ruler in Hermina.  In this one sentence-summary I have left
much out, but I have so far run across many passages in the novel that
seem to be taken straight from a discussion on N.

I was wondering if I might generate some discussion on this book and its
representation of N's thought.  Is Hesse here working with Nietzsche's
prophecy for the European herd animal . . . (Herr Haller as the german
masses, Hermina as Hitler)?  Further, would anyone more well-versed in
Nietzsche ( and Hesse for that matter ) care to expound on gender
issues raised in this analogy, is it representative or misrepresentative of
Niethzsche's thoughts about women?

JB.


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