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Aristocratic Radicalism: Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

Revolutionary Left Radio

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Nietzsche's Predictions of Nihilism

Nietzsche predicts that there are going to be a number of different kinds of nihilism that will emerge in the aftermath of the death of God. He's very much like Dostoevsky, another important reactionary thinker in that vein. The kind of nihilism he is definitely allergic to is a kind of passive hedonistic nihilism. But I think the more interesting kinds ofihilism that he's concerned with are political forms of nihilism.

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