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Re: 'modern masculinity has become nihilistic'

Posted by diogenes on 2024-September-8 18:39:37, Sunday
In reply to 'modern masculinity has become nihilistic' posted by Pharmakon on 2024-September-8 11:43:31, Sunday

I am intrigued by the quote concerning Messerschmidt's current book project, because the topic of the body brings to the fore another area in which Nietzsche's rhetoric is superficially liberating, but possibly only by ignoring aspects of the phenomenon under discussion.

Just as Nietzsche's conception of pain is basically a bourgeois conception (pains of loneliness, lack of recognition, ill health that is nevertheless not sufficiently threatening to interfere with philosophising and writing books), rather than the pains of being deprived of resources that are basic to human functioning, so his conception of the body is curiously aestheticised. He is unconcerned with issues of material welfare because he is only concerned with the bodies of the aristocrats, for whom questions of material welfare do not arise.

In Zarathustra, he talks about valuing the body, but the bodies he has in mind are like those in Greek sculptures, beautiful and perfect, maybe, but devoid of actual bodily needs. This accounts for his lack of interest in the everyday aspects of politics (taxation, economics, etc.). Such matters are beneath the concern of aristocrats, and therefore beneath his own concern. But this limitation in the scope of his vision lends his talk of the body a curiously abstracted air.


diogenes

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