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I agree with everything you said but this part: > the individual human being as a self-contained phenomenon He was absolutely an existentialist, but I think h
by samirillian 7y ago
I agree with everything you said but this part:
> the individual human being as a self-contained phenomenon
He was absolutely an existentialist, but I think his rebuke of the Cartesian _cogito_ undermines that self-contained concept.
- keiferski 7y agoI was trying to avoid delving into his whole idea of the will and explicit anti-‘selfhood’ as it seemed a bit too much for a HN comment. But yeah, I was trying to say that N. isn’t really a political thinker. He is better described as interested in fundamental forces that are far deeper than (what he perceives as) the petty mob values of democratic politics or a simple concept of individualism.