...This chapter examines how Friedrich Nietzsche came to be read as an “existentialist” in postwar Germany and how his “existential” image became so popular in the United States and France. Focusing on the interpretations of Karl Löwith, Karl Jaspers, and Martin Heidegger, it argues that Nietzsche...

... fold and how inclusion into the canon recast the work of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, and it describes the roles played by Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger in Germany and the Paris School of existentialism in France. Chapters address not only frequently assigned works but also...

...)—was “a radicalized and ontologized re-working of the psychological idea of the limit-situation that Heidegger borrowed from Karl Jaspers”. 1. The German text was first published in December, some five months after it was delivered, by Friedrich Cohen Verlag (Bonn, 1929). For this essay I have taken all...