Stephen R.C. Hicks
American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Rockford University; author of Explaining Postmodernism and works on postmodernism, Enlightenment thought, and contemporary intellectual history.
Books
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1. Nietzsche And The Nazis
A concise critical examination showing how Nietzsche’s aphoristic, often ambiguous writings were selectively edited and appropriated to legitimize National Socialism, arguing that core Nietzschean ideas — the will to power, the Übermensch, and his critique of egalitarian morality — were distorted into a racial, nationalist doctrine that Nietzsche himself opposed; the book traces the historical role of intermediaries and political circumstances in that distortion, contrasts Nietzsche’s individualist and anti‑nationalist commitments with Nazi collectivism and anti‑Semitism, and assesses the consequences of reading philosophical texts out of context for modern political thought.