Click HERE to access a pdf of Chapter 24: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperilism
* Use pages 755-757 "International Rivalry and the Coming of War" to complete pages 20-23 of the History Packet.
VIDEO Clips
Einstein, Planck, and Curie
Nietzsche's ideology was influenced by three things: David Strauss' The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, Darwin's Origin of Species, and Richard Wagner's Overture to Meistersinger.
Nietzsche desired to create with language what his friend Richard Wagner created wtih music. After experiencing the overture to Richard Wagner's Meistersinger, Nietzsche said, "Every fiber and nerve of my being is tingling." Click to listen to Wagner's overture.
Darwin's Origin of the Species provides important historical context for Nietzche's creation of the Ubermensch.
The Myth of the Phoenix
"Define it, Defend it, Reclaim it" - Activity
Anti-Semitism Prior to WWI - Click HERE for video
(watch from 5:00 until the end)
Scholars describe the persistence of antisemitism in Europe from the Enlightenment through World War I and explain how new social, political, and pseudo-scientific justifications were created to perpetuate old prejudices.
The Culture War