We may be familiar with the word, transgression, as it appears in Bataille's work, but Nietzsche also adopts this view as a central theme of his own work.
Even in Nietzsche there is a fundamental platform for transgression. It's not psychologized quite to the extent of Bataille 's writing, but it is dramatized. The same fundamental pattern is there. For Nietzsche, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar represents what is both esteemed and held in opposition. This is from the point of view of Brutus. To topple what is venerated; to topple God or what represents godliness because one must oppose it is Nietzschean transgression. One venerates the object of one's destruction.
Destruction of one's gods is never pleasant Sacred destruction is felt as an event filled with solemn negativity.
Bataille of course echos this same pattern of honorable destruction. What is to be honored? That which has to be destroyed.
Is the destroyer to be honored? Nietzsche suggests Shakespeare held himself in low esteem as a poet, in comparison to Brutus whose ethics required that he transgress against his leader.
Even in Nietzsche there is a fundamental platform for transgression. It's not psychologized quite to the extent of Bataille 's writing, but it is dramatized. The same fundamental pattern is there. For Nietzsche, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar represents what is both esteemed and held in opposition. This is from the point of view of Brutus. To topple what is venerated; to topple God or what represents godliness because one must oppose it is Nietzschean transgression. One venerates the object of one's destruction.
Destruction of one's gods is never pleasant Sacred destruction is felt as an event filled with solemn negativity.
Bataille of course echos this same pattern of honorable destruction. What is to be honored? That which has to be destroyed.
Is the destroyer to be honored? Nietzsche suggests Shakespeare held himself in low esteem as a poet, in comparison to Brutus whose ethics required that he transgress against his leader.
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