A Nietzschean's Response to Hannah Johnson's Blood Libel

Authors

• Richard H. Weisberg, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawFollow

Publication Date

Spring 2016

Journal

Law & Literature

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.”

Volume

28

Issue

1

First Page

27

Last Page

32

Publisher

Routledge

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2015.1127682

Disciplines

Jurisprudence | Law | Legal History | Torts

Comments

Special Issue: A Thousand Years of Infamy: The History of the Blood Libel

Recommended Citation

Richard H. Weisberg, A Nietzschean's Response to Hannah Johnson's Blood Libel, 28 Law & Literature 27 (2016).
https://doi.org/10.1080/1535685X.2015.1127682