° 9 True Ilusions: Friedrich Nietzsche Teint ica to wae ceria gona pall beet stor tranfalion ce Goo Fess Nate For Nee an Ubown wep hl-Uooded unt, whaler can epi em fest he bur proces ad fs sou eons. Os a a {Blot cre or Niue he hums Bod nese bat thas th Ondo i mete epee Speen oe {opower He nl alin Te Gy Samer ether philosophy kas ‘Suet ceo pret of the boy sods endo (Piscldy. ad ots win mock solemnly ite Tigh the Eetco posopee nae ye opoken ith rerrece aed pad ot Ee human mee, Nitocke bar ace than ¢ soak of ret Schopenhauer pip tou hin, so who he spect tat fe teal of Bdsm may be atebied to 4 iss of Sanat corset onthe Tn at Rc eight 9 en he ody we the enonmeus Ulndoge ef all taditnl_ blo "Pop ae aay ith ee thn mee Fe of wooo feed ot al the lof lege at exis, rele cre Jematble,allough be ipudentesoug to pase a were ell He by eon vl sem © te dyn aempt otk hough fen i oe 0 ean he ad Sarat ua prdacs eFopetis setae A work cw SER ie iapal polar er cakes We Bealsioaay eeme, Mee tw mito rvs wh aap 8 a Ecce pera The set he wis Mes ee ier spl stb Teste oly for Nits, which produc base le can sablege, The mld the way & only Gosuae of Ue, pee sacugue of ou senses, an « bere biology woul! deliver vs ‘terest wanerse eitiey. Trudi ts + fusetog ot the mulets solution of the specie: iti the passing afew of our sensuous Jburecon wit) ots emicoomnent, dhe upshot of what we need Sovran fous. The lw ew nears cousauetig We Hd oF Sori) wliin which cae’ powers ean best thve and ene’: devs sent foo fanofon. The wage t0 knoll j6-22 input to ‘conanct. an tus_for smplifang.and_faidiying the rich Stagione ota we Tere ees 0 them ‘Toth just aly red and, ahulatee by vr prc needs, and logis Pa flee cmulencig ine lotrcin oC ase. Kents atusSedestal wy of apperceptom has any meaning at, veers ott he ghonly frmscof te md butts the poosinal ain of he toy, We ink ae we da becuse ofthe ert of Dodie we hav, and te comple relations wih realy which this ena isthe bode rather than tbe mind whieh, interprets the world, chops it inte Trangeable chunks snd asigos approximate mcaniogs. Waat “aor is our mall sentry powers, wale are not ony ares dbemnselves ~ the products of a tangled history ~ but the sources of artefaes, generating as they do those lfe-eahanclag fetons by wtich ‘ye prosper. Tavapht to be sire is more th ust s biologi ax itis a epecalzed foncioa of our daves which can rfse and seein oe epee tee caus éo mover whi + ame of i one ‘pecs bags dal Gobo We lesley Oa (Commmuicetion itself; which for Niemsche os for Marx is effuctvely synonymous with consciousness, develops only under duress, a8 pact Of cnerilseuggle fx suri weer veh we ma come to delight in it as am activity in itself. The hod. ‘ticker, cleerer, ‘hore tingle phecomeron' than coneousaes Spurs in efflec Ot [Nieuscne che unconscinas~ asthe submerged sub-oxt of all or more reflective life, Thought is thus symptomatic of water cba phy bat ocpce hemerou wade yee tkelowlysotnes which impli Oe does not much contest ess 4s fod igrbed within them the Caces of omasin’s bangs, ‘Thinking is thus inherently ‘ideological’, the semiotic mark of a violence that now lies erased beneath i. Whar fascinates Nietsche is igeesane hank at the come of reason, the walie, ese ant OEE tenor ch de pope of seo 25‘mur mLUNONS inti ere wat he aren won dzone the fw ‘ur fi Bch oper, nll of seed o ul, Like Mar, dein Gnughts sede rit dessa actually born. That bod an toll ig what he ames gencalogy, in comtst the consling ‘roluonism of histo. That gruesome dominion of nonsexse and decdect that bas eo far been called “histo, he scale in Borond (Good and But) Genealogy unmasks the disreputable orgs of nce notions, tke chancaest oftheir fnevons,cminaing the dark ‘workshop where all thought i fobioned. High-toneé mol values te the Sloodnained fut of 4 baarous history oF deb, corre, ‘obligation, revenge. he whole homie process by which che human tal was systematically dguted and debated to be rendered 3 mraliatog brouek ‘fis evi inating and every sth has: bees by spiritual ane physical nd eu li ati Bosom of ll “g008 things" For Nietscho ab or Mars, orl’ pot se much & iter of probleas asa prolem al self pbesopbers nny have (queried tis oF th moral alu, bu they have ant 3et problem the very concept of morality, which fr Nietzsche is ‘merely a sgn Innguage of ihe auects* “Rather as for Mary te prodactve forets Become shackled and constxined. ty 3 set of socal reladons, so for Nictache the productive Kieinstncs ane enfexSed and fete what We iced ve rules sotac Seal SOY 0 camventonal sriey. Thi is esentally 1 move rom coercion to hegemony: "Moly se precled by apilong Fae, toed! fea canglin Bef Sl, WEN 2 HS oid deagecable cong : ri Latah bec CORON tte tll ee dbedienee, ard fll ainost becomes intact then, ike every ting ling ocsotiary and atu sshd vith grtticaion~and now i ‘alle ae" What we have seen in Rousseau aod other middle-ctss toons a the supreme pei ‘eset. rari Grom: ke 10 spontaneig, naked power to pleasusble abi, i for Nietzsche the Fist word in sef-repressiom, The old barbaric lw ysids to the Judseo-Chiisien invention of she ‘re’ subject as # masochtic 236 “rau LON intrjeton ofaubods opens up hatter ace afl sickness tae bad cnnasence wht elie teal subj Hedy vid inne unable to discharge themsls for Fen of scl dsr, form invard to die Binh te “soul the lice agen win each tea, The nard wt cea si expend, gues ph sil izport, us heralding he dea of "wl er ‘hoje and oploted without a care. The ase mop cesare Bn “estetied” subjecy in 0 foe as power his now beste pleasure burt sia a te sume ise De dese ef the ods of Testbed man animal, which Led out Hts besutiul bubaic irouncs i splendid uncon ‘Such. for Nicwsche, were che GaperDwhe orisinel imposed sheisdgpatcoamsrson splenic main to bekansed Jn. shape. “hele wort an isanciecreadon. and impoaion of few ey ane the most aelantry, sconscous ets hereae “They de tot iaow whet rt, responsi, or eosidersen ae, these bom organo they exempt tte apo at tas ihe lnc of bronze and know el josie ool ete int “ork, He # mr in her ld” ti di trv rug as dria hic drives underground the free isin of thos fabjugues, cening te sellouting Iie of science, eon, {Serta But suck sly svbjethood is hus he product of tmagecent atiry, sad rele tht forme discipine in is om fescring masochis: ‘This secaet selfravishment, this anit? cruelty his deligat in imposing a form on oneself a8 hand, recalstvant, sufering material ead in burning & wall, a (Gidigue, a cootdicion, a eomenpt, a no ino i, this Sinesong, dreadful joyots Lebour ofa soul vlucary at (fds with ite that oskeeitelsulfer outa jay i making filler — eventually ths entzely athe bad conscience! you wil have guessed it~ as the womb ofall deat and ‘imaginacve phenomena, power “in Sal, whatever at might meaty thin au mae romtes tnd earchus il cota comptes of tory Since hana iis ee such pone sins Newent on im te ie oe ce po aes i ie noes tu ea epost ver Butte wll power nul see rowate and congenic anna yor a ven “ae, Dandehons, fr insane, ares wp of elo pore ress expunge dome by spree, new seo owe belongs tena the wa powerta shane elf hese ‘plac bvers inden beeen rave, het secs a pret vlsaion. le vod freee fale, meanings chao, shen ho ein would oem be we cas one ve lus dea of Bink indfeeece Nene acordngy na eee sn men morass vo hold tt Ine wel ef codes with Narare. Such thinkers merely project their own arbitrary values Sariy vik scope a nes parce soa, Saray wis elaoge nade pure dona, lie stay ens te eran ora Hens: Neches batt ana ti agary leer mao sein Nive shes anor “Aecuring to tate’ sou waa i! O you noble Stic, wha decetne words these are! Imagine a beg lhe ut, wath oyoed ean nen” bed fmeanatewidovt puis or codeston, out (ere 2 jute, re nd date ad eto ae ‘Sm tims; opneindierace ew2 power = ho snd youve ocncng inet Humanity, in what Nietzsche terms a ‘monstrous stupidin’, regards: ‘=the means of al thingy ea cons mati be 28‘raUR eLUsIONS ‘bees which reflects back is own visage Du the very inference St the Nictachean univers, in conast to this antirepomorphism, Sounds sical eloe 2 soe of his own mos: cherished values. He ‘aries in Bond Goad aed Bot of Navure’s ‘prociga and indterent Inagaifcence which is outageoas but ble” implying that Nature's etereace to value io predeey is value. The imaginary ede bbeoseen humanity and eel is chus uparred wich one hand only te de remaled with the other: its the very haughty Needlesness of ‘ate which would seera to miror Niezsche's ova ethics. Te is in thio sense that Nietsche, for all his mockery of the catimentalist, i n0e cay 20 eistentiaist At one eve, he wold Jndeod appear to argue auch a ase: he wer? lck of inherent value forbids you from ‘aking © worsi exe fom it hesing you free to penerate your own groious values by hammering this brvcely ‘meaningless material inte aestbeic shape, Te etic! here is peel een “Genco conker; ar commander ad Tepislaroes they fay find shalt be"™ Dut to lve im his le prosily to imitate Nature as it truly, am achievement beyond the Pinveyors of the pethetefallecy. For the way the world isis no way in ardcila realty is wil © power, a veable complex of sel Promediag powers, 2d to Hive a feof autonomous slFrelization is heteore to lve in cordance with i Itis precisely by becoming an feod iz oneself that one mort aecustely mismors the univers [Nieusche appear to squtoeate between extn end nanralisdc ‘cases il tis opposition can be deconstructed to give im the es fall pensleideniogia! werk’. Te spl ungrounded auteaomy of legsting one's wn values ithe teeth of an amorel reality can {eel be metaphysically grounded, in the wey the world cently. "Life ishard, swage ieeferences but thi isa vale as mics 2 fs form of ercberant, indestructible energy to be ethically iitate. Ses Sues In come eRe ae a er tar anf men Je Smee ance the wil has tm fan no mora ceofeat."Ceaent henceforth becomes something merely frmal ~ cur life iscuded’, ‘Néstsche writes in Th Wil ip Pomer” And this is one sense ip hich ‘hel wea sem atonce the highet hind of ae, and no wu tal. { 20 “There is aprobler, however, zbout my one should alin he wi to power, One eaanot calla valve to ares tis free, since crerything expresses i anyway. There's no point in legialaag that ‘hings sboule do what they camot help doing just by vir of wast ‘hey are, Whats valuable is ekcucing he will bt whet ls the basis oF thar yalue judgement, and whence do we dente the ctena wich right derermine what is wo count as an enbancerient? Do we just ‘nove this aesthetically a intuitively, 5 whec Nictache speaks of the pleasurchle fling of power? "What healib is, remarks Heidegger ‘ominoualy a his sidy of Niwsche, ‘only the heathy cen sy ‘What truth is, only one whois thf ean discern. I he vl power i iisalf quite amoral, what is so morally postive about teatiching i? Why should one cooperate wih his fore, any more than ‘vith a seatmentlied Notre? Iris clear that ane ean choco, hike ‘Schopenhauer, to deny the wll eo power ~ even though all such ddenake must for Niensche be perverted expressions of it But iis ‘nclear on wa; grounds one judges Uat such uepston is bad, and that affiming Que wil is good. Unless, of course, one has already projected certs supremely postive vahses inp shi fore, such that prometing it becomes an indubirble tue. Cannot te effects ofthe will paver be eeicbrated only If one is albeady fa possession of some citeria of value by wbich to assess tberw “The ermth, ofcourse, i that Nietsce does indeed smuggle certain ready assumed values int the concept ofthe wi to power, in just the cieolar manner fr which he sco the dewy-ejed ncturaiss, In ‘a mypticaury gesture quite ar deluded as thels, he naturalzes ‘certain quite apeific social eas ~ domination, ageresion, explcis~ ‘iba, appropriation — asthe very esence ofthe anivere. But since such relations of conflict are not & ‘ting’, tise essenilisn it rystied in fs um. When norused of subjecvism, Nictsche can retreat to a Kiad of posivscs: he is not so atch promoting sny particular values as ceseibing the way Hie is. Lifes calls, wasteful, Iereiless,digpavionate, inimical as such to human value, bot these ferme are of course thoroughly normative. True value is (0 acknowledge that the azoraiy of the compete Iferuggl is the fines thing here is, Te suarke place would seem hostle w vale of a maditonal spiritual kad; but this plaia-minded insistence on. ‘ertin bre facts of if i itself, ineviably value-judigememt “My ideal, wees Nietesche, “ie ta each specific body strives to become 251Tae LLUEONS master over the whele of space, and to spread out its power ~ ts Will- ‘o-Power ~ repelling wheter resists its expansion, Bur i strikes continually upon « lke endeavour of other bodies, and eods by adjusting lel Cons”) with thea.” Few mote explicit theonza~ ‘Sons of espinlist competition could be imagined but Nitache is our in his oun way to spstualize this predatory state. The will to power ray be in one sense philosophical cede forthe marketplace, but abo delivers au ‘ariszcrac’ rebuke wo the sordid instrumentals of ‘uch struggle, urging instead a vison of power as an aesthetic deigit {niall Such an rationalise of power, seomful of all base purpose, diate self from an iguoble vellusnism in the very act of reflosdag the tations of capitalist production. “How does one cue, uate a Schopenhaser, to ‘choose’ the will 10 aver Either the at of choosing o affine che wil san effec ofthe ‘villtsel in whlch case ics hae ro see ow tea be a ‘choice’; ot JS tot, in hich eae it would som te fl, espessibly for Nictsche, ‘outside the wl to powers commie scope. Nitsche’s can response t9 this demos ito decoraruct the entire opposition bersera re will, and determinism I the actofafming the wi bery and necestiy ‘lend undecidably ogsther, nd the primary Nicuschesa image of this apera i the afvly of the artist, Asti creation is no mere rtter of ‘elton’ ~ 2 metaphpical delusion for Niousche if ever there was one; but it hguree aocetheless at our finest instance of artis Nietrache'scheme fen to en, ard the will & rene ‘not to say that be paces ‘uch credence in classical sestheis ifthe word isa work of art itis ‘a af an organism but asin all serity chaos ~l te sense not of'a fuck of necessiy but of = lak of order, arangement, ‘onm, beaut, wisdom, sod sthatever other mames there are for our aesthetic {nthrepomeaphisis”” The aestete i not « question of areocious ‘epresentation bot of the formless productive energies of bie itself ich spins off sheerly previsional uniies ix its ebeaal sport wih inal, What is aerate aboot the will we power i oxclly this srumaless, poles sel-gencrating, he way fe determines itself ° filferendy at every moment ost of ils own sublimely unsearchabie depths. The universe, Nietache comments in The Wilt Paes 2 | deo: of at whic gives bird eo iself and the arust or Cermak i 2s ‘reat mutes oe who in tp ths 9cocs in the mut of bit own ie sl frovacton, Such av sects of podurinn i the cy tl ibe Rann oto i dmeted jae ot ed fete object hich fupprats ihe oxblent, ens pec imag, ‘The cll evoke must hs be overhcoa by the ie aac pastime. Art ct and ape, denoale sa els, 3 Paso rather than spel af. [riot mater of snple Iueand entieed mean equ ng sn doing of he fedy wich Weeds seca ntniction with sGortss doco. Nictache's (deal rit somds more Hie 2 commando han ‘Sona At sealed ws oot Matig mune tote ev of mang cite Toe stomps etegt chivereped Tore ance casting fecnioe wc? wl to pow, ne wis sence, Eth and svcan. As Haeagr nee na Shabby Bate comment “Tre, Nsrhe ypeie spot eons soe But in dog 20 he apes fir mmeslne seat, Gene for desea.” De orermin ait and ala tena end ett it oos, whach & precse) aol w soggen tat be le fp fis spontaneous impulses. On the conwary, Niewsche denounces the ‘Bind nclgence f'n afer the seo he great en eed views greamess of character as 2 manly control of the instincts. The Aighest aesd:zue Condition if BPhegemony: ihe? throng, degading labour af submission to moval favs the Clarmanch wil Sally atin toreriqay over is row susieedspretien reskin ad ng Som ig wi a he nocanco of oe sap cea! as ‘casfing his materials into shape, The whole of existence is accordingly wy 2 pe bh js aesthetivized: we must be poet of eur Eves’, Nietasche procains, im - the caput everyday matters” The evenman improvises is fora moment wo momen: out oa superabundance of power and high spirit, stumping form on the flex ofthe world, Soren chan ito feeding order. *To become master of the claes one i; to compat ‘ne's chacs to become form is the highest aothose achieverer’, ‘which only the most dedicated sudo-aasochist can anain. Tre muy ‘srong man is serene enough to submit ro such leraing sel Aisciphne; dose who resent this constraint are she weak who Tear ‘ecome sive “The constsint in. questa, i fs, is of m enbancing rater then oppressive kind. What is at stake, as Heidegger pats is ‘not the 253‘Taye uLusiens sere subject of chaas wo form, but that mastery which enables ‘he penal wilderness of Qos andthe primordial of tw to ance funder the stme yoke, ineiubly bosad to one anether with equal eoersty.” The law of the fre hursan eniral is of a eudoushy Zntnorin kind, tely unique t each :adoiual, Noting eumages [Nieasche more than the insulting suggeston that individuals night be in stae say coramensurebie, Tne lew which de, Ubemecict cones on imei, ke the “ae of the artefact is io no sense Tteronomous t him, bat simply cho inner acces of bis incomparsble sclffshioing. The seshets as model or prinple of social consensus 35 utesly routed by this rata rsseace on ftonomy, and it is bere, pechape, tt Niewsche’s though 6 tis smost policy subversive. The Dhrecsstit the exery ofall esa Jal mire, all prepotonate pelt fess; his slight eee Se Rad eminence “ae Plilsophy ofa Kerkegard ab equal disdeintul of eck babiead fEnduck The seshese 1s autonomous eelfretizaioa 1 vow at Ieggethesds with the aeshee 25 custom, Abin, socal unconscious; ‘rcioore precise, the [ater have now been audscioualy appropiate fom the public domain to the persone! Ki. The overman lives es fubiusl isin, abselved from the cles reckonings of cascious- sess but wat is admirable in Hur is nausea in soe a8.a wok Hegemony in wrested from the police arene and reacted withon ial simay alows im to recog is disgust for morbid self dlgence with az extreme ibertarinisn. "We have seen chat the moral aw fer Netasche, as with the Mossi ods for St Pa is morely# Indes 79 be Kiced away once mounted. Ieforas a protecrive shelter within which one grows to reaturity,bucit ‘oust chon be abandoned, in a Kieteaadian “wspension of the ‘chica, for the adventure of free eelfereaton. What this enterprise fnealves i the transraing lot instinct of all tht consciousness as painfully acquired in the epoch when it Zejgued supreme. Tn that ‘the buman organism learnt to absorb ino its trwcure the Finmats essen! for ie to Boursh; it vemarns to be seen whetber it can now in mom incorporate the euch — which is to sey, the 254 “TRUE ELCHONS open dt tae iso wah, The tenga bbe wn cu ‘pointe and natuize sien ths eile knowledge, comver i to finely iesinctal babi dance hoot ceraindes on the Dik of he syst For him che very Gromnalesuess of te world had become a spc of ashes deg and a ppt fceimton. in {hus Hving out sequel cola! vlvo¥ Ss oneonicous zee, che ‘enman reduplicace at « higher Teel the barbarien who simply saleahed bis dives Jn + reenal fhe _ Faget Sag cae ene et bos take of the lfessustaning fenctions once falflled by the ‘lower? drives; and the consequence will be that deconstraction of the oppostion becween intellect and instinct, ‘olson and necesig, of which at isthe supreme prototype. ‘Arts Seem to hevo more seasiive noses in thece masere Niewsche writes, ‘Enowing only too wall tha precisely wher they no Fonger do anying ‘volantrily’ burda exenthing of gecussiy, thei feolng of eadom, sctlety, full power, of creative placing, dispecing, and forming reaches is peak ~in short, tat neceasiy ad “treedoes of che wl” thea beonrre ove i them. ‘Nietsche’s narradte, then, begins with an origina! inerrancy of | ‘ind impulse, ambivaleatly editable and terrible; shifts to 2 mosal conscience which impedls but also enriches sock impulses, and ‘enlminaes ia higher gzthesi in which body and mind ae united nes the aegis ofthe forte. An originary bru! coesclan ives birth to amore of oral hegemony, which i wa paves the way forthe sall= hegemony of the overman. This naw dispensstion combines, i ‘cansfgured form, the spontancity ofthe fxs pariod with the epliy ofthe second. A “bad intojection ofthe law in the ethiea!-ubjective stage gives way ‘good such irermslizaon inthe coming aesthesc ‘epoch, when freedom and governance wil ech find its toot in che coher. For rach 3 recorslesly ans-Hegelign thinker as Niewsche, this scenarin bus something of 2 firlar rng. 10 permsbing crigncliy 1 to press to o thin! stage the two-phase movement, facia & acsthewcuning though, from coercion to hegemony. The ‘concept of hegeroey s reine; but he aw to which one wll aly ‘eld consent ooting but the law of one's unique being. In king ‘ver the testhetc model of ¢ free appropriation of liv, but in stepping dat law ofits enormity and universalism, Nicosche brings lo any sotion of soeial consensus. “And how should dhere be a 255 |‘rave saLUSIONS “eomen syd", be sea in Bod Goa end ‘comradict #86IF whatever can be common alwaya has idol ha discs ‘virtue af little tree dan ie hus seo orerting toe we Buren ‘lion of ech cheds nthe Oa of soil ty. Asthetee and politics are now cutright antagonists: al. great periods of culrure Ee ben poids of pole den, sa te whale oct of the .., ‘ellurestie’, of te esthetic as cilizing, elveasoral, sociliy [Big e Serpe i jut teen de eeaseaion of sha Hehe srl poe ‘etacke's ator dian for 3 counon measure & by no sneas oly caceepabl te barge acd, Be eee he rosof commensal ones thes the bonged ore deren plat of commdicson eaneca i cream of astnony aad ‘tml feelin the Mosc lng tha he poseat reginie of legal and raoce subjecthood simply mediates benween tro Sue taser, ne Tashi an the cer aie. I Bis hat godine for ert sey, elie Is pad Aer comeston barman aod Ian ae seossng of 7 Nicuscbe, iis only because it ifeoraese embodies the math that ere i no woh. “Truth igh’ he wie ic The Wi Poser "We ames a tru" Ar expreses the ll © power, bot the wll to power bet semblance, eanslent sagas surface Liesl cesthetic becouse it ims fy at‘Senblanee, meaning, ero, decor, smstion,delsion, esf.delasion' and art oe tots ely prety fly It ‘Salo fale ta, ace eprint an ophemerl stabi of being on this meaningless warring of forces; teres no wey in which he will o> wer canbe repreneated wit bei) tat raent ditoned. ‘Ac express the brte senslesnes of the wil, but sianctaneonshy conceals ts ack of eaning by the fashioning of sgticane frm. Ta ‘ings, ives us ns e morse boli that he wrk has soe ‘Spear shage wit aad 30 falls something ofthe functon ofthe Kenta iaginry “Te more fle sti theo, Ue oer itis woth ese asi af ie rset i deems sn, here esol he rah of that falsity. Ata single stoke, art gmptemaizes and shies us from the tele (unuth of the unberse, and thus i Jovy Gis. Gn the ene hand, consiory forms prtet us fom the deal 256 insight tha chee is acrally nothing at all, that che will © power ie either real, rue nee sel-denecal on the other Pang, the very ‘content of those forms ‘the will elf, which je no more than an sternal dissing. Art as dynam process i tue tothe untruth of ‘the will to power, at as product or appearance i uninua to hit (un). In ertistic craton, then, he wil to power harnessed and tryed for an instant ngunst ts own cru! SadtTerence, To produce forms ane vals fiom tis tumultuous fore is ooo sense to weak against if; but iC ww do so with a touch of is own dispassionate sereaz, in the knowledge that al such valves are purely fete. (Que night put the same point difreoty by ching that et for Neetsche is at once masculine and feminine. IF i ie stenucus, ‘muscular, productive it is alto fickle, mendacious, seductive Indeed Nectcke’s enare philosophy ms on « cious amalgem of these semua stereotypes. This mest outrageously masculinst of ceeds i devoted (0 ysaning the eine values of form, surat, semblance, slusiensss, sensuality, against the potsarchal maps of essenes ‘rutand identi. Inthe concept ofthe wil to power, teze tw sof sel characteristics are sub interwoven, To ive cceording to the ‘ills to lve cobtsdy,imperinaly, relessd ftom all female cheisance| twlew nto splendic phallic autonomy. Butt have mastered oneself in this ene is tobe st fee to live ischievousy, pleasuraly rica, Juutetiag in « ressing sport of masks and persomee, gliding in and fot of every pasion and subject-postion with all dhe serene self composure of the sage. Niewche is Cs able 1 speak up for the “ferinin’ principle precisely es oo ofthe ros virulent seit Fis age, le he shares with the obsesively misogycisie Schepeahoues Mf cut i indeed @ sowar, den the asin is complimenti to either. 1a the atiemath of Fike aad Sobelg, Nietsche i we most Alunborant example we hove os full uoded ardetcce,reeueng cverying thee uth, cognition, atic, roalty elf ~ to a ‘neces of anefce. eis onl tan enti phen! be wie in celebred)pree, "bat extence god the wotd ae tpl ela which eal tana SiR TMES te Elser of Tasos feast spr, wich ntnds no harm ecu i cade novhing ba elton iif nit be aetbeeeed, shedding dead earesttse wo been dae, gh, high sprit The key 2st 0sth terms ar ble and bse ais than good snd bad, questions of sole and saste_ratber thap of moral jedgement. Righs living 's « ‘pases of istic consistency, Saamering one's existence int an aunerey mifed sple. Ariteelfis beeing and detiation: emus be ‘wrested fm the onish Seals ad restore te the bods, to ory and festive ritual, Aesthetic value-jndgements must rediscover their ‘Gut foundation inthe Midna! aiiven Are insu ws in the profound ‘ruth of how to live supesicaly, to alt atthe sensuous [fice tather then best he dnsory esence beneath i. Perhane soperfiabirfthe tox eseace of ifs and depth amere vel ew ‘over the authentic banal of things. "To lem tha here is noting bu surfaces merge in effet, chat sucioly mus einguith ts wadioeal netaphysical ustcatons for ‘what docs Iris featre ofthe ratalizing, seculaaing eco of sidle-class soviety, ab we have seen already, that i tends ‘undertine some ofthe ver metaphysical values on which hatsociey ‘epencs in part tris Jegmadin. Nietache'sthoogdt pista one bold wey out of this exbueraning contrition: society should enecaee Sach motphselpstis ond ve daring, roundly in the otal truth of te atest actin Is ths weit which te concept of the wilt power bas been rise to he sesh dip of ‘an end i itself Bourgeats productive eneeses mist ris thei own fowodation; the values which zany the soeial order must be conied eely out of te own via feces, oot ofthe ‘act of is incesent sirving andl strugeling, not hypocritally superedded from some fupematucal soure, History must lec to be seogencrative 13d sell leghimating, open. is ears 10 te haed lesson ofthe sesh ‘This wile praliferatiag uetirerk of dominance, aggressiveness ad appeopsion.muscsrant the death of God ai have the courage (eg aia The daa God Hi deh of the superiors aren mst make do tend wld Ge Gc” of fs gee eS ov nike Viewed in Uislight, Nieasche's work signals legitimaton crisis in ‘wbidh the brute fact of bourgesis soclety are no donger easily saisbl by an inherited tion of cate’, Wests ear aie the “mendasios toery ofthat alleged realty of the man of culre’” rcknowledging tat nowe of the social letimations on afer — Kansan dury, moral sense, Usltaran Rees andthe rest ~ ae soy loager comiacine, Rother than seach anxiously for some 258 ‘eRe LUTON alematve meapéysicl germs, we shonld embrace th wit 19 ower — hich t0 sy, the metipsie guarante that ao uti [round & needed, that olece and domination ae just woresslons| ofthe wy the ucere isd require no justieadon beyond this, this tat Nictche means by rng sesthesaly, celebrating power rena els But dis tua cut besip) ove mare justiato,| Fnnestng if witha he glamour ofthe cosmic ideologies me Should sppesedly surpass. ‘iste pits the produce wily of sci life again its ecto for consensus, Gus turing one cureat of the astiete agua another, Ox de ene band & rampant zesthetcintion swenps Bly aevost the whole of comtencoral socey, undoing ts ethics and spisemclag, skaterng is soperatuel cosets and scent ‘es, end dessin in i edi indidotm ll posi oF suable police order. On the oer land, his setting free cxa be seca at Ge very lfiblgod ofthat eouveniona sce ~ 5 te sige to ininite prodvcty as ax en in al, wth exh producer Jeced in ctemal combat wih te te. Is af though Niensche Sl in this organied social iationalam.sosething of arts oe splendiipautotelc nature In contempt fr the timorous bourges, He ubveds a ot Adal a silly sewing creature, cong msl up anew at very moment, who wes for Kegs the lst ‘werd in ‘asthe fuiiy, Bu feos new crete, sng, Up overearing shape oo the woddd wi athe hes of the eld seamceadenal egos badly as ne 2 be appeas. Ifthe fons ration of the Cbomen cers te Seat enh ce, Ibe may ls ares is atti aera inthe speze of roducéen not fa he sacred precincts oF family, chur aad sate. To ve sdveocurosiy,expsineutly, aay jeoparive mesh ceri tudes; bur such resoureflseliprovetca shar) am unfair Usain the matet ple. Nietache isan atoushingly ati taker, we hacks i wy though the supesouere tear bray sent of fe ssinding- Ay far asthe bse Ges his radicalism lees ‘rething excl ost wasy only goed eal more 30. Nowe 1 Fridich Newsche, The Gay Soiace uaasated by Walter Kavénaca New Yer, 1974p. 35. 29“TRUE LUSIONS 2 Ted, p18 43 Fei Nensehe, Tie Wil w Pony wazuated ty Walter Kaufann sad RJ Hollngale (New York, 1968), p. 270. 4 Riedich Nicasche, Send Grad and Fog in Waler Kaufman (o8), Basis ria of Nish (New York, 1968), p 302. Hereaer BH 5 Baidsch Niecache, On te Geno of Mera, BW, wp 550 and 458 4 Namath, Bond God and Eo, 2OFp. 290, : 17 Bricéich Neszsche, Homan, ll Too Bhan, quetedby Richard Schaei, ike Losin, 1983), 9. 28. 3 Nieonche, Gazal of Mira, BH, p92, 9 Tid, pp. 322-5, 10 Bis 324 UL Niswsche, The Wil s Pome, p44 12 Friedrich Metsche, Tie Waser avd ins Shadow, quoted by Schacht, Nessie, p30 15 The Gig Sens, quod by Schachr, Mets,» 190. 14 Fritch Nicene, Pio hea, wanted by A. M, Ladevist (oodan, 1927, 9.4. 15 Nias, The Hl Parey, p15, 36 Niewsehe, Cri of Afra, BI, $57. 17 Bid 18 Nietxche, Bqved Coad end Sei B’p. 393 19 Nesnstha, Goel of ira, BA. $32. 20 Ts, p. 255. BL Nesssthe, Be Wilt Por 2.268. 2 Tage Hiern Ker end Homan tes Lan, 189, paw i" 10 Giles Deleuze, Niche nd Philp Landon, 198). 85-6 2 Nivasehn, The Teg of he it, 9.8. 25 Nisucene, Byard Cod and Bel BH p 205, 2% Niewathe, The Gay Steep. 286, The Teg of th Ld, p75. 27 Niensche, Band Goad on! Eo, BH’. 29, 28 Di, ». 236. 29 Nite, The Hills Pras; p AS. 30 Marin Hisegger, Mest, Ya. 1 The 190 Poser a Are (London, 1980) p12. 131 Frictih Nictsche, Nast, quoted by Arbur C, Dante, Niece os ‘Piller (New ork, 96S), p22. 32 Por an iteresing estat of ieraty and arin moti Nitze, see lender Nelurss, Nish: Lif os Clear (Cambri, Mas, 1989). See abo Alin Meg, Pope of Barony Berkely, VRS) Parl, ‘reve aLUsiONs 133 Niwscaa, Cauainy of Area, BH p. 821 54 Nietche, The Ol Pom p42 4S Heideyser, Mica, p76 136 Niowathe, Te ile Pome, p40. 31 Niesichs, The Gay Say, guoted Date, pT 4B Nicmsche, The Bl to Pane, p44 29 Hiaidegger, Misache,p. 128, 30 Nieasehe, Ip. 196 I Nictche, Bond Cred nd El Bp 330. 2 Nievache, Bp 208, 48 Niewsche, The Wil 0 Per,» 435. 4 Niesche, Th Gap Ser, p 282, 45 Soe Fme Macherey, Tho of Leroy Prarie (London, 1978), Par 3, fe sa nerestngly parle spproth See alsa Paul de Mas scout of The Biah of Tray Ia lors of Reading Sew Have, 199. 40 Niece, The Bind of Tap, BH p. 132. 7 th» 6 Ee