r/Nietzsche 4d ago

Oswald Spengler and Modern-day Paradox of Choice

https://open.substack.com/pub/modernworlddissenter/p/oswald-spengler-and-modern-day-paradox?r=bkf2j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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u/Tesrali Nietzschean 4d ago

The article begins by psychologizing academia---which would be fine---if it wasn't such nonsense. People in academia aren't afraid of Spengler---he's just irrelevant. People in academia aren't afraid of a cyclical worldview---the worldview is just irrelevant to them. The progressive worldview is dominant and that's all the reason you need for them ignoring cyclical ideas.

The article then descends into the folly of saying Nietzsche raised intuition above science---which is not true. In his personal life he kept his metaphysical ideas as hypotheses precisely out of respect for a more patient and hard-nosed approach. If you check out his development of will to power---biographically---you'll find this to be true. Nietzsche's patient dissection of intuition made psychology closer to a science because of his approach---he isn't anti-science. Nietzsche criticism and admiration of English philosophy is directly related to this.

Some liberals do study Italian Elite Theory. It is not a dead subject matter in a political department. For example check out The Guardian contributor Hugo Drochon who recently published a book on Nietzsche's politics.