Dialectics and Drama
Nietzsche as a Young Hegelian and Maître à Penser
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3969686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Crisóstomo De Souza (0000-0002-2370-4727, Universidade Federal da Bahia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2022.2119510 |
| OpenAlex | W4294838986 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Art · Dialectic · Epistemology · Hatred · Hegelianism · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Negation · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |