Werner J. Dannhauser

Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist by peter berkowitz harvard university press, 313 pages, $35 A consensus about the meaning of Nietzsche’s philosophy continues to elude us. One might have thought, for example, that a man who praises cruelty, denounces pity, and entertains the idea of mass . . . . Continue Reading »

Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture. By Louis Dupre. Yale University Press. 320 pp. $32.50 Professor Dupre has written a challenging and stimulating book, a work that is serious in the best sense of the word both because of what he investigates and the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr translated by richard and clara winston and harry zohn schocken books, 722 pages, $45 If a poll were conducted today to ascertain who is regarded to be the preeminent Jewish thinker of this century, . . . . Continue Reading »

To come to Jerusalem from Paris, or even Tel Aviv, is to succumb to the uncanny feeling that one has left the center of the West, or even its periphery, and delved into what used to be called the mysterious East. In part this is owing to the bar of the Sonesta Hotel, where I’m staying, while . . . . Continue Reading »