The Psychology of Living After the Collapse of Certainty
Nietzsche’s philosophy is often presented as a collection of disconnected ideas: the death of God, nihilism, genealogy, the Übermensch, eternal recurrence, amor fati. ...
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What Was Nietzsche's Project?
In the previous articles, we explored three of Nietzsche’s most important ideas: genealogy, revaluation, and the evaluation of values. We saw how genealogy investigate...
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What Makes a Value Worth Keeping?
Most of us have values we believe are worth keeping. We value honesty, courage, kindness, freedom, justice, loyalty, creativity and countless other ideals. But have y...
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What Is Revaluing Values, Really?
Most of us inherit our values without thinking much about them. We learn what is good and bad, right and wrong, admirable and shameful from our families, cultures and...
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What Is Genealogy, Really?
Most people think genealogy means tracing a family tree or finding where something began. Nietzsche uses the word differently. For him, genealogy is a way of asking ...
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Nietzsche's War Tactics
Nietzsche did not see attack as mere outrage, impulse, or personal hostility. He treated it as a disciplined art: strike only when the target matters, stand alone when...
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Slavoj Žižek's Definition of Critical Reading
A critical reading, Žižek suggests, works like a short circuit—by connecting unlikely texts or ideas, especially pairing major works with marginal or disavowed ones, i...
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Todd McGowan uses Hegel to refute Ayn Rand
In Emancipation After Hegel, Todd McGowan refutes Ayn Rand’s use of the Law of Identity as the foundational axiom underpinning her political defense of laissez-faire c...