Friedrich Nietzsche on why the rise of the philosophers meant the fall of man: Once reason took over, men
“no longer possessed their former guides, their regulating, unconscious and infallible drives: they were reduced to thinking, inferring, reckoning, co-ordinating cause and effect, these unfortunate creatures; they were reduced to their ‘consciousness,’ their weakest and most fallible organ!”
For more on the implications of Nietzsche’s philosophy for postmodernism, see p. 64 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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The only Nietzche I know is the Nietzche of Walter Kaufmann. That Nietche is far from being a post modern.
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