Published: 2022-12-061

Nietzsche’s figure of the „free spirit” and his position to the enlightenment

Claus Zittel
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.8522

Abstract

Nietzsche philosophizes with the help of fictitious figures to illuminate problem contstellations from different positions. This makes it difficult to attribute clear statements to him, not least regarding his position on the Enlightenment. This essay tries to show, on the basis of Nietzsche’s figure of the “free spirit”, that this supposed representative of the Enlightenment does by no means appear
consistently positive, but is critically illuminated from different perspectives, so that on closer examination he turns out to be a protagonist of a general self-deception, caught in illusions.

Keywords:

Nietzsche, Free Spirit, Enlightment, Epistemology, Aesthetics

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Zittel, C. (2022). Nietzsche’s figure of the „free spirit” and his position to the enlightenment. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (28), 293–311. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.8522

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