"...the big project in Nietzsche is to offer a critical scrutiny of human mind, but not to have any critical vantage point. To criticize the very principles of good society and good, to critical scrutiny. Where does it come from when we have the conception of good and good society? That is his project. It's an incredible intellectual venture. As I said, it is this kind of squaring of the circle, what he does; what he does with a great deal of power.
...He is like Rousseau; he is only worse than Rousseau. He provokes us even more than Rousseau. But, you know, deep down he's a very sensitive — you know? — very humanistic human being. He provokes you. But if you listen carefully, you figure out there is something what you actually can relate to it, when you think what he's actually trying to get at.
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And, of course, there is no Freud, there is no Weber, and there is no Michel Foucault; there is really no modern and post-modern social theory without Nietzsche's insight. This is a radicalization of critical theory. Right? Critical theory — we talked about this, from Hegel to Marx — was a critique of consciousness; that what is in our mind is a distortion of the reality. And therefore they were trying to subject human consciousness to critical scrutiny. Nietzsche does it the most radical way. He said, "I am capable to show the shortcomings of our consciousness, without showing you what is the right consciousness." That's the project."
© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
[link]
...He is like Rousseau; he is only worse than Rousseau. He provokes us even more than Rousseau. But, you know, deep down he's a very sensitive — you know? — very humanistic human being. He provokes you. But if you listen carefully, you figure out there is something what you actually can relate to it, when you think what he's actually trying to get at.
(...)
And, of course, there is no Freud, there is no Weber, and there is no Michel Foucault; there is really no modern and post-modern social theory without Nietzsche's insight. This is a radicalization of critical theory. Right? Critical theory — we talked about this, from Hegel to Marx — was a critique of consciousness; that what is in our mind is a distortion of the reality. And therefore they were trying to subject human consciousness to critical scrutiny. Nietzsche does it the most radical way. He said, "I am capable to show the shortcomings of our consciousness, without showing you what is the right consciousness." That's the project."
© Iván Szelényi
Yale Lectures on Foundations of Modern Social Thought
[link]
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