3,055 words
Marc de Launay
Nietzsche and Race
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023
On August 1, 1950, Theodor Adorno wrote a letter to Thomas Mann. Adorno was a philosopher and critical theorist, Mann one of Germany’s most famous novelists, having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, primarily for his novel, Buddenbrooks. Adorno wished to tell Mann of a planned book on Nietzsche, to be written with Max Horkheimer and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Horkheimer, along with Adorno, was one of the founders of critical theory, while Gadamer was the “father of hermeneutics,” a specific interpretative method applied to texts qua texts, and a development of Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics. The book was to have a very specific theme and purpose:
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