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Nietzsche and the english nihilism Introduction II

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  By psychology, we must understand the state of the impulses which push us to act in this or that way. Psychology, understood in this way, would like to make consciousness the alpha and omega of all human reality. If reality is, on the contrary, a will to power, that is to say a hierarchy and imposition of values, put in order by the dynamics of dark forces and thereby calling into question the all-fixed power of consciousness, it can then be interesting to question what is happening in this struggle of giants that are the British Empire and the German Reich in the process of being established. Germany and England: we should not see there simply geographically located powers, although in this matter the geographical question is not trivial and negligible, but rather forms of the Spirit as a form of spiritualization of the impulses. Spiritualization appears to be the fundamental point by which a people is understandable to others and to itself. These points having been es...
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Nietzsche and the english nihilism Introduction I

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      Nietzsche and the English Nihilism In his History of Great Britain, Roland Marx wrote in 1980: “Nineteenth-century England is Victorian England. Born in 1819, ascended the throne in 1837, Victoria presided over the destiny of her kingdom until 1901. It experienced its prodigious economic rise which made it, around 1870, the leading power in the world; she has experienced, without always understanding them, the transformations of a society whose virtuous ruling circles do not always succeed in completely resolving the glaring evils; it has seen political life become democratized at the municipal level as well as at the level of the entire Nation; Above all, she was the sovereign of a country at peace for almost a century if we except the short Crimean expedition. Under his reign, the United Kingdom offered the world, and Europe in particular, the models of a new economy and society, and the promises of technical progress. With its Empire constantly expanding ...
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The great Gatsby

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      The great Gatsby. Writer: Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Field: novel. Composition: nine chapters. Main theme: the failure of success. Secondary themes: mystery, magnificence. Friendship. The love. Secrecy. Historical context: After the First World War, Prohibition and rapid fortunes in America. Some fortunes are made from nothing. There is a struggle between the fortunes of the heirs and the fortunes of the upstarts. There is a desire for social recognition at all levels. This desire for recognition, for the bon chic bon genre, clashes with man's initially savage nature. Tom Buchanan, the heir to a considerable fortune, is astonished by this fantastic ride of the upstart, who, no doubt, could only have made his fortune through bootlegging or worse. And Tom is not wrong. Gatsby is indeed a man of illicit traffic. But the battle is waged on an even wilder level. Why does the book interest us today? There is a kind of magic or sorcery that emanates from this ...
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On the motion and immobility of Douve

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  Writer: Yves Bonnefoy Field: Poetry. Composition: five parts. Main theme: finitude. Secondary themes: light and darkness. Death. Lucidity. Moat: what is it, what is it, what is it? The enigma. The place. Historical context: as Jean Starobinsky points out, the position of poetry has changed over the last few centuries. Its position with regard to truth has been strongly challenged by science, which has finally won the battle for credibility. Scientific procedure and the discipline of proof remain detailed procedures and are subject to very limited domains. They do, however, enjoy credibility and have erased the poetry of this kind of claim. Yves Bonnefoy, who had trained as a scientist, looked at this state of affairs with lucidity. It was with this same lucidity that he proposed his collection. For while poetry could not compete with science in terms of proof, it could on the other hand take an interest in the question of meaning and totality (whereas scientific procedu...
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