[lbo-talk] Nietzsche

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Sat Jun 30 12:50:00 PDT 2007



>
> In sum: the rhetoric of personal responsibility is
> of a piece with the
> hyperindividualism of our capitalist society, and it
> is ideological
> through and through.

Ahistorical ideological bullshit of the lowest and most ignorant order. Tell it to Sophocles or the 41 Ronin or . . . you get my point. (Neither of which are even remotely "hyperindividualist.")Talk of personal responsibility is coextensive with, maybe an essential component of, the idea of human agency. _Any_ idea of human agency, not just ours. This is a point Nietzsche makes with his discussion of the creation by pain of a creature with the right to make promises.

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