Sunday 24 July 2011

Nietzsche, Bataille, Zarathustra


Seeing Nietzsche through Bataille's eyes -- especially Thus Spoke Zarathustra -- you can see the sacrificial aspect to his thinking very clearly. Nietzsche believes that "fate", not human foibles, should determine every individual's destiny. But how does one develop enough personality to entice "fate" to take an interest in you?
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    • Jennifer Armstrong That is the problem Nietzsche sets himself in writing the book.
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    • Jennifer Armstrong ‎....and, ultimately, when "fate" does turn at last to take an interest, the results are inevitably tragic. This is what attracted Nietzsche.
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    • Jennifer Armstrong ‎"Fate" takes the place of the Christian deity and its interest in you is always negative (in the sense of using you as part of a negative dialectic against the trend of the whole). Thus, the motif of "sacrifice" in both Nietzsche and Bataille.
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