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Le Regard Libre N° 79 - Enzo Santacroce

Prejudice against philosophers« series, episode #5

Nietzsche, the multi-faceted philosopher, was just as much reclaimed and hijacked by Nazi ideology as he was by the anarchist forces driving the students of May '68. How can we explain the fact that the thinking of this brilliant mind has been co-opted by both brown and red? The German philosopher's fragmented and deliberately shocking statements certainly contributed to his misunderstanding. However, his lucid critique of a Western society now living without transcendence is highly topical, in that the only acceptable value today is that of health, understood as the annihilation of suffering. Aware of this decline at an early stage, Nietzsche developed a tonic response based on the will expressed by