Radikale Modernität bei Derrida und Nietzsche

Translated title of the contribution: Radical modernism in Derrida and Nietzsche

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Abstract

The paper discusses one of the later texts by Jacques Derrida. The text allows Derrida to be interpreted as a thinker of advanced modernity. Systematically it is possible to read modernity via the image of overcoming, which may be understood both in the sense of progress and restoration. The question Derrida asks is this: how can the potential of freedom to overcome be preserved without succumbing to teleology that informs it? The answer lies in the notion of future, which as the simply uncontrollable cannot be situated in any history. However, Derrida's attempt to normatively fill the uncontrollable future by relying on Kant's practical philosophy and legitimise it as a form of the mind fails. The notion remains empty, as can be shown by setting the boundary against Nietzsche. Nietzsche's notion of Übermensch hints at modernity as a future that liberates it from the pressure of history. Nietzsche reflects the figure of overcoming without impoverishing it the way Derrida does.

Translated title of the contributionRadical modernism in Derrida and Nietzsche
Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)93-111
Number of pages19
JournalProlegomena
Volume8
Issue number1
StatePublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Future
  • History
  • Mind
  • Modernity
  • Nihilism
  • Overcoming
  • Teleology
  • The unconditional
  • Übermensch

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