The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche
The main argument of this paper is that the debate on whether Nietzsche is communitarian or individualist is wrongheaded, failing to distinguish the conception of community and individual Nietzsche critiques, the 'mob' and the 'Higher Man', from the conceptions Nietzsche envisio...
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The main argument of this paper is that the debate on whether Nietzsche is communitarian or individualist is wrongheaded, failing to distinguish the conception of community and individual Nietzsche critiques, the 'mob' and the 'Higher Man', from the conceptions Nietzsche envisions and hopes for, his 'free spirits' and – what I call, based on the critique of indivisible subjects in the Genealogy of Morality – the idiosyncrasy. I propose a reading of Nietzsche which elaborates his novel conception of a non-ascetic will to truth, based in courageous honesty and self-overcoming, rather than self-preservation, in order to conceive these individuals and communities. The coupling of Dionysus and Apollo has to be replaced with Dionysus and Ariadne because, using key terms from Deleuze's Nietzsche, the sense and value of critique is generated from a labyrinthine, Dionysian meaning as will to power and Ariadne's thread as evaluation based on the eternal recurrence, constituting the idiosyncrasy and the free spirits, respectively.
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| spelling | doaj-art-ef84549d47ac4bb5b62a9ad711ea28392025-02-11T19:37:39ZdeuAxia Academic PublishersLabyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics2410-48171561-89272024-10-0126110.25180/lj.v26i1.358The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in NietzscheZachary Stevens 0Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research The main argument of this paper is that the debate on whether Nietzsche is communitarian or individualist is wrongheaded, failing to distinguish the conception of community and individual Nietzsche critiques, the 'mob' and the 'Higher Man', from the conceptions Nietzsche envisions and hopes for, his 'free spirits' and – what I call, based on the critique of indivisible subjects in the Genealogy of Morality – the idiosyncrasy. I propose a reading of Nietzsche which elaborates his novel conception of a non-ascetic will to truth, based in courageous honesty and self-overcoming, rather than self-preservation, in order to conceive these individuals and communities. The coupling of Dionysus and Apollo has to be replaced with Dionysus and Ariadne because, using key terms from Deleuze's Nietzsche, the sense and value of critique is generated from a labyrinthine, Dionysian meaning as will to power and Ariadne's thread as evaluation based on the eternal recurrence, constituting the idiosyncrasy and the free spirits, respectively. http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/358NeitzscheDionysusAriadneascetictruth |
| spellingShingle | Zachary Stevens The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics Neitzsche Dionysus Ariadne ascetic truth |
| title | The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche |
| title_full | The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche |
| title_fullStr | The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche |
| title_short | The Importance of Being Honest: Free Spirits and Idiosyncrasy in Nietzsche |
| title_sort | importance of being honest free spirits and idiosyncrasy in nietzsche |
| topic | Neitzsche Dionysus Ariadne ascetic truth |
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