ABSTRACT

The ambit of this chapter is clearly circumscribed; it is a re-appraisal and re-evaluation of the allegations of anti-Judaism or antisemitism in section 7 of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals,1 ‘Good and Bad’, ‘Good and Evil’. It is in this section that the Jews, there characterised as ‘that priestly people’, are given the role of overcoming the noble in the name of the slave and replacing the former’s mode of evaluation of ‘good and bad’ with that of ‘good and evil’.