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Dialectics and Drama: Nietzsche as a Young Hegelian and Maître à Penser.
- Source :
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European Legacy . Feb2023, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p1-24. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In this article I argue that Nietzsche resorts to a typical, ambitious Young Hegelian dialectical grand narrative to dramatically frame Modernity, elevate his own critical theory to unmatchable heights and find for himself a superior, unique position as Critic and Destiny, having as his main enemy the philistines (common human beings), and that which politically corresponds to them: civil society and democracy. Nietzsche's epochal narrative exhibits a classical dialectical progression from Error/Negation, through Escalation, to Crisis, then Negation of Negation (Inversion), and promised New Age, all of which entails the unwelcome consequences of self-aggrandizing exaggerations, determinism, negativism, binarism, otherworldliness, transhuman idealizations, and racial-caste-hierarchism that compromise the otherwise interesting side of his critical suggestions, once deflated, on culture and morality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10848770
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- European Legacy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160755118
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2022.2119510