Bataille's Nietzsche

NIETZSCHE: Let us not believe too quickly that now we have rid ourselves completely of such a logic of feeling. Let the most heroic souls question themselves about this. Every smallest step on the field of free thought and the individually formed life has always been fought for with spiritual and physical torments: not only moving forward, no, above all moving, motion, change http://www.yuga.com/Cgi/Pag.dl​l?Pag=125

Nietzsche - The Dawn Or Daybreak - Full

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Nietzsche - The Dawn Or Daybreak - Full

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    Jennifer Armstrong(CONTINUED)

    ‎....have required innumerable martyrs, all through the long path-seeking and basic millennia of which, to be sure, people don't think when they talk, as usual, about "world history," that ridiculously small segment of human existence. Andeven in this so-called world history, which is at bottom much ado about the latest news, there is no really more important theme than the primordial tragedy of the martyrs who wanted to move the swamps.

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    Jennifer Armstrong In other words, if you are an advocate for real change, this is likely to affect you at the level of mental stability. Historical power shifts are relatively minor issues, by comparison.

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    Jennifer Armstrong ‎...and this is basically what Bataille made much of in Nietzsche, with his notion of "transgression" as a form of sacrifice.

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