Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche in Explaining Postmodernism

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

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Foucault as Nietzschean: on knowledge as injustice

Juxtaposing quotations from Michel Foucault (d. 1984) and Friedrich Nietzsche (d. 1900). First, here is Foucault: “All knowledge rests upon injustice; there is no right, not even in the act of knowing, to truth or a foundation for truth; and the instinct for knowledge is malicious (something murderous, opposed to the happiness of mankind).”[1] Friedrich

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*The Will to Power* — new translation by Hill and Scarpitti

Penguin has published a new translation by R. Kevin Hill and Michael Scarpitti of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Will to Power. In the mid-1880s Nietzsche was extraordinarily productive making and reworking notes for an intended magnum opus. But he did not complete it and turned to publishing the final few short books of his career before

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Nuestro problema con el Che Guevara

por Stephen Hicks  [This is a Spanish translation of “Our Che Guevara Problem”, first published in English at EveryJoe and then translated into Portuguese at Portal Libertarianismo.] Es muy probable que alguien que conozcas tenga una camiseta del Che. Versiones románticas del rostro barbudo de Ernesto Guevara Lynch son muy populares en los campus universitarios y

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Nietzsche and Rand: 96 Similarities and Differences

This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Summary 96 issues included as of April 2016. Agreements: 19 Disagreements: 70 Semi-agree/ disagree:  7 Of the agreements: Negative agreements:  8 Positive agreements: 11 Bibliography Nietzsche’s works cited Rand’s works cited A The Antichrist

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