Peter Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle, fourth reading: Of Suns And Humans

Peter Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle, Chapter 4: Of Suns And Humans

In this final chapter of Sloterdijk's short but delightful book on Nietzsche, he uses his primary thesis- that language itself is essentially selfeulogistic and that Nietzsche realized and utilized this fact, to figure Nietzsche around the origin point of postindustrial individualistic ethos (in relation to Emerson) as well as- quite interestingly, to characterize Nietzsche as more of an Apollonian rather than Dionysian thinker.

I very much enjoyed this short book and will probably write further on it in the future. Sloterdijk is (to my knowledge) one of if not the only contemporary writer who really places as much emphasis on Nietzsche as I personally believe is warranted. He doesn't at all attempt to deify Nietzsche or downplay his more embarrassing dispositions or pronouncements, and yet places him as a seminal figure in marking the cesura between the previous age and our now dawning era. Reading Nietzsche as 'event'- as first symptom or proof of the particular lines of thought that have become possible, is necessary in producing any informed hermeneutic that can account for our current social and cultural conditions; Nietzsche functions as our essential axis logoi.

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