• Abstract

    The Mass culture and the existential void, totalitalism and democracy: The beyond of man as overcoming

    Published date: 16/12/2024

    Since writing his For the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche has been developing a project marked by an increasingly radical distrust of the fundamental bases of culture. Aristocracy can be inferred from the philosopher's criticism of the entire gregarious dimension, through which culture is marked. In the course of this work it will be observed to what extent Nietzsche's effort is capable of contributing to the political project of domination and overcoming. The very notion of aristocracy has, in its dimension of radicalism, virtue as the will to dominate, one of its differences. Would this virtue be understood exclusively as strength, and therefore devoid of morality, informed by Christianity as a civilizing project, beyond mass culture and the existential void?

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