Abstract

Discusses Heine's and Nietzsche's revulsion from contemporary German philosophy, whose glorification of the spirit (in the wake of Christian theology) meant antagonism to Judaism's cultivation of the earth and of life, and thus antagonism to the real Jesus, the Jew. Heine warned that this philosophy would lead to catastrophe. Suggests that Kafka's "Process" ("The Trial") is a parable on the 2,000-year-old fate of the Jews, groundlessly accused of deicide, when in reality (according to Nietzsche) it was Pauline theology that murdered God. Pauline theology is the system under which the Jewish victim Josef K. stands accused, and which blocks his entrance to the Law. The ultimate consequence of this antagonism to the Jews was the Holocaust.