[lbo-talk] Nietzsche

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Jun 29 10:42:41 PDT 2007


Carrol Cox wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>> N's argument that the
>> self is a useful fiction--or even better, that truth is
>>
>> a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms--in
>> short, a sum of human relations, [sic] which have been enhanced,
>> transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which
>> after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people:
>> truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what
>> they are.
>>
>> I:'ll say this was a metaphorical 2 x 4 upside my head the first time I
>> read it; I guess we get shaken up by different philosophical challenges!
>>
>
> The direction of this is pretty much the same as that of Marx's sixth
> thesis on Feuerbach, human essence as "the ensemble of the social
> relations." Those words have informed my thought for nearly 40 years.
>
> Carrol
>
>
Yes, Marx and Nietzsche are on the same page here: the creative power of social relations. (That's why I don't get CB's antagonism about Fred. Sure, N hated socialists, but N completely agrees with old Whiskers on this basic philosophical level.)

Miles



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