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He perfected the art of postmodern jargon before it was cool. Make no claim at all, but be sure to include all the buzzwords that signal to the audience that w
by Blikkentrekker 6y ago
He perfected the art of postmodern jargon before it was cool.
Make no claim at all, but be sure to include all the buzzwords that signal to the audience that whatever vague theme one is describing probably sits well with it's politics, and instant success is achieved.
- dash2 6y agoI suggest you have no idea what you are talking about. Nietzsche never used a word of jargon. He made a large number of extremely direct claims. "God is dead" is hardly content-free, is it? As for pandering to his audience for instant success, he mocked every piety that existed in Wilhelmine Germany, alienated most of his friends, and went mad.
- Blikkentrekker 6y ago> Nietzsche never used a word of jargon. He made a large number of extremely direct claims. "God is dead" is hardly content-free, is it? “God is dead.” is a claim whose exact meaning, like so many things said or written by Nietzsche, has been debated for centuries now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead#Discussion_by_Hegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead#Discussion_by_Hege... As you can clearly see there are quite a few different interpretations as to the meaning thereof. > As for pandering to his audience for instant success, he mocked every piety that existed in Wilhelmine Germany, alienated most of his friends, and went mad. Then those were simply not his audience.
- dash2 6y agoOK, dude. Talking of content-free claims, how exactly would we test your hypothesis that Nietzsche pandered to this mysterious audience which didn't include any contemporary Germans?
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI never spoke of whether Nietzsche's claims were true or false. I merely said they were so vague that it is debated what exactly their meaning was, which is entirely different from them being false.