Is the „death of God” the „death of society”? An attempt to combine selected aspects of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the philosophy and s Cover Image

Czy „śmierć Boga” jest „śmiercią społeczeństwa”? Próba połączenia wybranych aspektów filozofii Fryderyka Nietzschego z filozofią i socjologią Georga S
Is the „death of God” the „death of society”? An attempt to combine selected aspects of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and the philosophy and s

Author(s): Markus Lipowicz
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: F. Nietzsche; G. Simmel; „death of God”; prerequisites of sociation; decentralization of culture; life; simulation; connoisseur of the art of living; postmodernity

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present article is an analysis and interpretation of the relation between the „death of God”, proclaimed by Frederic Nietzsche, and the prerequisites of sociation in the post-modern era. I will try to show that the „death of God” does not only refer to the religious dimen-sion but also expresses the contemporary condition of the western culture. Nowadays the western culture is a decentralized culture that does not relate the human life to any metaphysical notions or ideals. This leads into the destruction of social integration which I will analyze after Georg Simmel in three dimensions: the destruction of the image of man, individual self-realization and the har-mony between the individual and the social entirety. I will try to prove that postmodernity consti-tutes an era of a simulation of the society and a battlefield of multifarious forms of life, values, customs and conceptions of truth, which cannot be pacified.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 85-106
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish