Autore
Lovibond, Sabina

Titolo
Selflessness and Other Moral Baggage
Periodico
Iride
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 67 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 521 - Pagina finale: 538

A critical discussion of selected themes from Christopher Janaway's BeyondSelflessness. Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007). Focussing first on the ideaof Nietzsche as a writer with no «political agenda», I argue that his distaste forparty politics poses no obstacle to an investment in «grand politics» of an anti-«modern» or anti-egalitarian stripe, and that this investment should be more significantfor a present-day reader than Nietzsche's attack on «selflessness» in theguise of quasi-Christian physical asceticism. Then, turning to the postulate of a«covert desire to exercise power», I maintain (with the support of an avowedly non-Nietzschian distinction between legitimate and illegitimate motivation) thatsuch desires - for example, on the part of those hitherto reduced to a conditionof powerlessness - are nothing to be ashamed of. Nietzsche, I conclude, has thedubious distinction of being well suited to the status of iconic philosopher of(post-«moral») late capitalism.



SICI: 1122-7893(2012)67:3<521:SAOMB>2.0.ZU;2-8
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