Martin Jenkins

Nietzsche: Aristocratic Radicalism or Anarchy? Martin Jenkins

Every enhancement of humanity has occurred in an Aristocratic society says Friedrich Nietzsche. Ubermen who are a unified complexity are alone, the source of change and creative human advance. The values of Democracy, Egalitarianism are the consequence of 2000 years of slave morality ascendency. From the collapse of the latter, the human type will re-emerge stronger, in its natural state of aristocracy whose dynamic is Will to Power. Yet the Will to Power can, with the insights of French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), be so interpreted to bring about a reading and a society that is the very opposite of Aristocracy...