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The entire Who's Who of postmodern thought―Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard and others, can trace their philosophical ancestry to Nietzsche's radical relativism.
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Dave Robinson has taught philosophy for many years. He is the author of Icon/Totem's introductory guides to Philosophy, Ethics and Descartes. He thinks that Nietzsche is a postmodernist, but he's not sure.
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Nietzsche is an important philosopher because he was the first to recognise what being 'modern' really means for Western Europeans. He saw that two thousand years of belief in Christian values was coming to an end, and that this meant that our individual lives no longer had any purpose or meaning. Even worse, nearly all of the key ideas and values of Western thought were just 'metaphysics', without foundation, and he believed that this devastating fact woiuld have to be confronted honestly. He finally suggested the need for 'new people' who would understand and celebrate the new state of affairs. And all of these disturbing ideas he expressed in an extraordinary way:
"At last the horizon appears free again to us, even granted that it's not bright, at last our ships may venture out again...the sea, our sea lies open again; perhaps there has never been such an 'open sea'."
Nietzsche knew he was a prophet. Photographs of him usually reveal a man with a ridiculous walrus moustache and wild staring eyes. He always thought he was writing for a more appreciative future audience, and described himself as a 'posthumous' philosopher. So, one hundred years later, perhaps we are that audience and he is the first great postmodernist...
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