Was Nietzsche anti-Semite? Or his alleged anti-Semitism was only a "youthful error" transmitted through them, their teachers and their models, and that it was up free to become "himself" and worthy of his name?

The figure of the Jew who draws Nietzsche is complex. Exhibits his surprise hidden highlighting its double face: on the one hand, the possibility that owns the Jewish despise the secular contempt which has been subjected; on the other hand, bring the contempt of self and humanity farther than any other people.

Does it depend on this Jánico face an inconsistency of the texts of Nietzsche or his ambivalence about the Jews? Not necessarily refer rather to what Nietzsche called the "Jewish specialty 'means the invincible faith of the people in their choice and their" propensity to sublime "?

Far from wanting to "fix" the "case" of the Jews, and "settle" in one way or another, Nietzsche stresses that they have not yet said its last word. The people he estimates the decadent least of all peoples will gleefully predicts fate to become lords and guides in Europe.

Sarah Kofman