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A Nietzschean's Response to Hannah Johnson's Blood Libel
Law and Literature (2016)
  • Richard Weisberg
Abstract
Hannah Johnson's article for this symposium, and her masterful book, provide a historical and psychological template for understanding the perennial obsession among certain Christian writers with the “blood libel.” My brief response to Johnson emphasizes Friedrich Nietzsche's expansive aphorisms in On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) that analogously frame some Christian responses to Judaism around the phenomenon of “ressentiment.”
Keywords
  • blood libel,
  • Friedrich Nietzsche,
  • ressentiment
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
Citation Information
Richard Weisberg. "A Nietzschean's Response to Hannah Johnson's Blood Libel" Law and Literature Vol. 28 (2016) p. 27
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard_weisberg/42/