Thank you so much for the link.... I've not read the full of it yet but I will.
Nietzsche was/is quite a controversial philosopher indeed and I believe the following line excerpted from the paper tells it all:
Yet there is beyond, and indeed beneath, Nietzsche's anarchophobia a Nietzschean Anarchy that is infinitely more anarchistic than the anarchism he assails.
Nietzsche was a tormented personality, the son of a Lutherian reverend. His contempt for both Christianism and (XIXth century) anarchism was rooted in his visceral disgusting of "victimization": so far as both Christians and Anarchists pose themselves as poor, deprived victims, they no longer fit the "heroic", overassertive feature of the Nietzschean Ubermensch..... But Nietzsche's view of such a wild, self-confident hero would perfectly fit today's psychological profile of a serial killer!!
The Unabomber or Timothy McVeigh smoothly fit in with the Nietzschean concept of Superheroism whereas Gandhi, Ibrahim Rugova, Yitzakh Rabin, and Gorbatchev, e.g. would be despised as "losers" --however revolutionary their historical legacy is. Actually, Nietzsche had a Hollywood cast of mind --he would have been a perfect movie director for blockbusters starring S. Stallone, A. Schwarzenegger, and the like (but not Charlie Chaplin!!). His was a naive definition of the Hero. Today, Nietzsche would be a hardcore James Bond buff, that is an admirer of a hero who is not prey to resentment, who doesn't do it "to make a living", who doesn't involve himself to help the no-gooders. Nietzsche prays the free-wheeling hero who could shake the whole society for his sole pleasure, according to his bon plaisir only. Indeed, Nietzsche was an anarchist of sorts.....
Gus. |
