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Niče kao prekretnica mišljenja moderne
Nietzsche as a Turning Point of Modern Thinking

Author(s): Nemanja Mićić
Subject(s): Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Philosophy of Mind, Ontology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: Nietzsche; modernism; mind; nihilism; postmodernism; will to power; eternal recurrence; superhuman;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author emphasizes the importance of Nietzsche's philosophical legacy in explicating the transition from modernism to postmodernism. It will be also shown why that choice is not arbitrary. The first part of the paper will be dedicated to clarifying the significance of mind in Nietzsche, which was often misinterpreted. Thereafter, in the second part, the author tries to illuminate the intrinsic value of nihilism for both Nietzsche and Heidegger, as an important guidance in demonstrating Nietzsche's most distinctive ideas – eternal recurrence, will to power and superhuman. From that point, the author tries to give the answer to the question if Nietzsche's stream of thought can give us a guideline to avoid and overcome the entanglements of modernism, which he thought of as deeply problematic.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 169-181
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Serbian