{"id":13219,"date":"2012-01-24T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:38:28","slug":"robert-fulford-nietzsches-inescapable-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/robert-fulford-nietzsches-inescapable-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Fulford: Nietzsche\u2019s inescapable shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the <em>National Post<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.nationalpost.com\/2012\/01\/24\/fulford-carving-a-nietzche\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Fulford<\/a> traces all the ways we still live with a long-dead madman:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Friedrich Nietzsche is one of those philosophers you just can\u2019t kill.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been in his grave since 1900, having been silenced by insanity many years before. In 1898, The <em>New York Times<\/em> ran an article headed, \u201cInteresting Revolutionary Theories from a Writer Now in the Madhouse.\u201d He\u2019s read, as he was then, only by a small minority, many of whom it would be flattering to call eccentric.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he runs through our social bloodstream. Francis Fukuyama\u2019s remark has the sound of truth: Whether we like it or not, \u201cWe continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know it but Nietzsche scripted many of our conversations, putting words in our mouths. When we talk about culture (the culture of this, the culture of that) we echo him. Anyone who discusses \u201cvalues\u201d (instead of, say, ethics) is talking Nietzsche-talk.<\/p>\n<p>People who claim to be in a state of \u201cbecoming\u201d are Nietzscheans, knowingly or otherwise. He believed (now everyone believes) that we are all constantly reconstructing ourselves. In Nietzsche there\u2019s no such thing as a permanently stable personality.<\/p>\n<p>He was the original culture warrior. He laid the foundation for the struggle between traditionalism and modernism, an enduring battle. The more important a tradition, the more he wanted to see it challenged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the National Post, Robert Fulford traces all the ways we still live with a long-dead madman: Friedrich Nietzsche is one of those philosophers you just can\u2019t kill. He\u2019s been in his grave since 1900, having been silenced by insanity many years before. In 1898, The New York Times ran an article headed, \u201cInteresting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53],"tags":[262,400,1190,576],"class_list":["post-13219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","tag-culture","tag-language","tag-nietzsche","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3rd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42675,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13219\/revisions\/42675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}