Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:13:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Autonomedia: "Nietzsche and Anarchism"


Paul Virilio takes the same stance as you in this
regard when he critiques Nietzsche's concept of the
superman as being basically the most extreme example
of technocratic, instrumentalist thinking - he leans
toward a Heideggerian perspective of respect for being
rather than will to power at any and all costs -
however this seemingly more gentle approach can also
become authoritarian, as it did in Heidegger's case
when he used it to justify the Nazi government of
which he became a part; in short neither Heidegger nor
Nietzsche's positions are ultimately necessarily
anarchist nor anti-anarchist, rather it is a matter of
how one interprets them and puts them to use - the
creepy thing is that you can make a case that both of
their philosophies became complicit with the Nazis,
but then you could say the same thing for Marx's
thought which was twisted around by Stalin, Mao,
Lenin, etc. and for Bakunin's which was twisted around
by anti-Semites and neo-Jacobinist quasi-fascists like
Nechaev.

Jason 

--- eduardo enriquez <eduardofenriquez-AT-yahoo.com>
wrote:
>  --- "J.M. Adams" <ringfingers-AT-yahoo.com> escribi: >
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Looks like Autonomedia is coming out with an
> > interesting collection called "Nietzsche and
> > Anarchism" edited by the late John Moore this
> coming
> > 
> > August, featuring articles by Alan Antliff amongst
> > others - anyone have more info on this?
> > 
> >
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570271216/qid=1055496507/sr=1-97/ref=sr_1_97/002-5315263-9601625?v=glance&s=books
> > 
> 
> personally the words "nietzche" and "anarchism" dont
> fit too close for me. i know how nietzche influenced
> people like foucault and deleuze yet nietzche
> positions on hierarchy and clases are just basically
> conservative, elitist, and at times even social
> darwinist which of course is not the positions of
> post-structuralism. but if one wants to remain
> within
> a post-structuralist pesrpective and critizice
> nietzche from within it then it could be useful to
> see
> martin heidegger's critique of nietzche as perhaps
> the
> highest point of western metaphisical thought which
> along with that of hegel's realize ultimately
> western
> metaphysics. because indeed nietzche reduces all
> values (and indeed everything) to subjective
> symptoms
> of the will to power, realizes enlightenments
> project
> of the individual self realization and self
> creation. 
> the subjectivist view of nietzche is easily
> compativble with an imperialist perspective since
> one
> only has to answer to oneself. for more on this
> check
> the influeced by heidegger duo of marxists Adorno
> and
> horkheimer in "dialectic of enlightenment" where
> both
> nietzche and sade are analysed as ultimately taking
> the enlightenment to its ultimate consequences and
> thus hardly to see him as some form of
> counter-modernist as so much pomos have attempted.
> indeed it will rather be very interesting to hear a
> "heidegger and anarchism" position. if theres
> philosophers who cannot be accused of imperialism ,
> one of them is very likely heidegger.
> 
>
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