On Nietzsche
There is more truth in the “decontextualized” French Nietzsche of Deleuze and Foucault than in the historically accurate Nietzsche…………
The universal frame of Nietzsche’s thought and its particular historical contextualization is inscribed into the very edifice of Nietzsche’s thought.
Ergo….
In the same way the tension between the universal form of human rights and their “true meaning” at the historical moment of their inception is part of their identity.
And….
Every particular position is haunted by its implicit universality, which undermines it. Capitalism is not just universal in itself, it is universal for itself,–as the tremendous actual corrosive power which undermines all particular lifeworlds, cultures and traditions, cutting across them, catching them in its vortex.
–excerpt from Violence by Slavoj Zizek
