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From: Sylvie Ruelle <sylvieruelle-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [D-G] "Rousseauistic"?
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:33:50 -0800
To: deleuze-guattari-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


For some reason, when I try to think of Nietszche (whom requires a lot =20
of authority, in my opinion, to speak about), I always look to Wagner =20
as an example of what Nietszche avoided later in life.  I think 
Nietszche IS much more subtle and humble than this type of man of 
"power"...  Wagner being the paranoiac and Nietszche being the 
Schizophrenic or perhaps a sort of psychotic.  I think they use 
different types of memories and Nietszche is much more sober, much more =20
joyful.  I have thought of the tears Nietszche would shed and in what =20
spirit he would smile and say, "Thus is life..."

On Feb 23, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Aaron Bradford wrote:

> To restrict Nietzsche to a conservative ideology is to cut off half of 
> his body.
> While undoubtedly anti-democratic (Zarathustra and other texts are 
> fueled by
> this), Nietzsche was far too subtle and far too explosive to be either
> conservative or liberal; he was beyond this. His embracing of the 
> Dionysian
> runs counter to conservative valuing (as his forays into the 
> Apollonian run
> counter to liberalism). He used what he needed (what made him powerful 
> at a
> given time--and thus was good) according to the situation.
>
> The revaluing of all values is both conservative and 
> anti-conservative. Anti in
> that it destroys all previous values; conservative in that its aim is =20
> the
> creation values, often times, for Nietzsche, ancient values. But even =20
> this is
> an over-simplification. It may be necessary to cease thinking in these
> dichotomies.
>
> Deleuze has always affirmed a Dionysian Nietzsche, which, it seems, =20
> toward the
> end of Nietzsche's thought and life was Nietzsche. Deleuze's Nietzsche 
> may be
> the best portrait of Nietzsche we have.
>
> Aaron
>
> Quoting "Dr. Harald Wenk" <hwenk-AT-web.de>:
>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> Deleuze and Guattari are neo-anarchistits.
>> The commom justification for goverment in any form is, that
>> people don't manage to do themselves.
>> The anthropolic variant is to say they are to violent, greedy,
>> egoistic anfd espially to lazy  for learning the complicated things of
>> division of work on free will, as a "conditio humana", that means
>> written in the essence of commeon mankind, so unchangeable.
>> This is the line of argumentation for the justific<aation of 
>> institutions,
>> in germany most prominent developped by Atnold Gehlen - in his case
>> combined
>> with the idea of man being insufficent and so there was a need to 
>> develop
>> techniology (from stoneage on)  as compensation.
>> The anarchistic view is the other way round:
>> Take away the goverment, and people and things will flourish.
>> Peolple, especially in the near as neighbours, know one another very =20
>> well
>> and have all abilities - grounded on a rousseauistic unconconisness - 
>> to
>> solve their probelems - which doesnt't get to complicated
>> if not always tied to the problems of the other 6 Billion people 
>> living at
>> present
>> on our earth, but stay for the most local.
>> The second line of argumentation for state or goverments is:
>> there are too much people, masses - this aspect was strongly discussed
>> till the 1930, prominet by Ortega y Gasset - so there arise problems
>> of regulations that are only solveable by states and bureaucraties in 
>> an
>> emphatic sense - an aspect emphasized by Max Weber.
>> If you look at history, before the 19Th century the role of the
>> state or nation in everday life was not great.
>> This changed indeed with the growth of population - with Malthus
>> struggle of nurishing following as a fix idea for the century, 
>> reaching
>> until now.
>>
>> It may astonish you, but Nietzesche himself was very antianarchistic =20
>> and
>> antidemocratic, looking at masses at something "Growing by itself" =20
>> and not
>> really worthwhile.
>> He was dreaming of the war for the rule of the world - which was tried
>>  from the ground of germany two times.
>>
>> But being psychological very sensitiv and original and against dumb
>> economy and bureaucraty, he
>> was taken up by a lot of sensitiv people, especially in arts.
>>
>> Indeed he was an ideologe of the conseratives, this was tried to be
>> pointed out
>> by Lukacs.
>>
>>
>>
>> And, you can reread the Ant-Oedipus, the unconsciousness is 
>> rousseauistic.
>>
>> This also tested by posing the problemof "the firing squad":
>> How can soldiers shoot at the sanme time without being commanded by a
>> general (or sergant or someone).
>>
>>
>> Hope you got a glimps
>>
>> Dr. Harald Wenk
>>
>>
>> Am Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:15:12 -0500 schrieb Jeremy Livingston
>> <jeremy.livingston-AT-gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:08:19 +0200, Dr Harald Wenk said:
>>>>
>>>> Deleuz and Guattari thought the unconciousness as "rousseauistic" =20
>>>> (in
>>>> Anti-Oedipus),
>>>> a healthy natural state. Thre only unhealthy desire is that of
>>>> suppressing
>>>> somebody, especially your nearest.
>>>
>>> Whoah, I don't know about that. Rousseauistic? The schizophrenic
>>> experience, or the experience of the sorcerer/lycanthrope, is 
>>> anything
>>> but gentle meek or mild. Their use of Nietzsche is not a pose: the
>>> unconscious is rough, cruel, transgressive, alien, freak, bestial,
>>> cybernetic, sidereal.... This is what they think of as the "healthy
>>> natural state". Not necessarily hateful or violent, not necessarily
>>> sadistic, but definitely Sadean, not Rousseauvian.
>>>
>>> They affirm that, and celebrate it. Can we? (This is not just their
>>> challenge, but the one they've inherited from Nietzsche....)
>>>
>>> Jeremy
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