Call for Papers, n. 10: “Nietzsche the Humanist”
Edited by Carlotta Santini
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, the last of the great German thinkers of the 19th century and in many ways the first great philosopher of the 20th century, still enjoys a bad reputation among many readers. The positions of a certain scholarship, which emphasizes some of the most radical cores of the philosopher’s thought, also contribute to painting a gloomy landscape, providing a strongly oriented reading. This is how Nietzsche, despite himself, became a theorist of racism, a supporter of social Darwinism, a forerunner of totalitarianism or at best a fan of Bismarckian-style Realpolitik.
Against these readings we want to propose here a change of pace, one that not only lets the texts speak again, but above all strives to restore Nietzsche’s thought to a supranational and eminently humanistic dimension, placing it in the hereditary line of the French Enlightenment and of thinkers like Goethe and Burckhardt, whom he himself recognized as his masters.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought is an anthropologically inspired philosophy and has the vocation of a practical ethics. It speaks to us of the human being and is addressed to the human being as a thinking individual who claims his role in history, culture and society. Instead of avoiding uncomfortable themes such as nihilism, the Superman, the will to power, the theories on the breeding of future humanity, this issue invites to take them head-on and evaluate all the potentialities and perspectives they prefigure.
What critical tool does the genealogical perspective provide and what project does it outline for European society? What value does Nietzsche attach to education and training of the human type and to the birth of a “sovereign individual”, capable of self-regulation and of becoming the bearer of new values as well as of a general responsibility?
These and other paths of research make it possible to delineate the boundaries of a philosophy that is directed towards whole humanity and that does not cease, today as then, to demonstrate its actuality.
Submission deadline: November 15th, 2020. Authors are kindly ask to follow the editorial guidelines available for download at: http://www.
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