Nietzsche’s cultural elitism

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ID23211720
AuthorsDavid Rowthorn (0000-0002-7362-272X, University of Warwick, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume47
Issue1
Pages97-115
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0045-5091 • E-ISSN: 1911-0820
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00455091.2016.1233381
OpenAlexW2521004275
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited17

Elitist readers, such as John Rawls, see Nietzsche as concerned only with the flourishing of a few great contributors to culture; egalitarian readers, such as Stanley Cavell, see Nietzschean culture as a universal affair involving every individual’s self-cultivation. This paper offers a compromise, reading Nietzsche as a ‘cultural elitist’ for whom culture demands that a few great individuals be supported in a voluntary, rather than state-mandated way. Rawls, it claims, is therefore misguided in worrying that Nietzsche’s elitism is a threat to justice. The paper focuses on Nietzsche’s Schopenhauer as Educator , the key text in the elitist-egalitarian debate.

Aesthetics · Compromise · Economic Justice · Elitism · Epistemology · Flourishing · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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