Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tiffany Towers Shorty
I'm no expert on Nietzsche, of course is that you can give several interpretations (Giorgio Colli, Italian translator of Nietzsche, did not agree with Lukacs's interpretation of Nietzsche a prophet of Nazism). Certainly
or Nietzsche was anti-socialist, anti-Christian and therefore anti-modern. But we must also say that with Christianity and even more with modernity, people cease to be such, because the essence of modernity is the story (not yet complete) of the rule of the bourgeoisie (the USSR was a dictatorship over the people rather than self-government of the people, a sort of Leviathan in short). Rise of the middle class that begins, as pointed out by the same De Benoist, when the middle class supporting the king to oppose the excessive power of local aristocrats (see the essay "The Bourgeois"). So while the aristocratic spirit of Nietzsche can be a polemical attitude against the spirit of bourgeois modernity, on the other Nietzsche is not really greek, but rather a conservative of his age. Why Nietzsche is not greek? Why:
1. Neglects the Athenian democracy, focusing on a politically aristocratic Greeks, which has been overtaken by Greeks themselves. In fact rejecting the philosophies of reason, can not but reject the very concept of democracy.
2. The aristocratic Greeks had a sense of community that was higher than that of later times of the demos (especially demos after Pericles). Nietzsche to the contrary is a rooted, an individualist.
3. For the Greeks, philosophy, and therefore the search for truth, were, with the exception of the Sophists, of primary interest (the slaves in Greece also dabbled in philosophy). In Nietzsche, however the truth ceases to exist, it says a nihilism which reflects the very condition of modern individualistic society. So Nietzsche
displays a positive attitude aristocrat, but still modern, and not greek, so nihilistic and individualist. Anthropologically pessimistic and nihilistic (the people is made from sheep that need the Lords in the case of Nietzsche, and the party in the case of Marxism) in the Marxism of the late nineteenth century positivism and the twentieth century. materialistic Marxism is outlined, as an abandonment of the illusions of philosophy (ideology considered), a transaction is perfectly in line with the decommissioning of the community brought about by modernity. A community that already with Christianity had eradicated from the earth to become a community "heavenly" universal (a community unhappy, because it sets itself as transcendent object).
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