Status Updates From Why We Are Not Nietzscheans

Nietzsche's work explicitly and in an exemplary manner articulates the critique of democratic modernity and the denunciation of the argumentative foundation of norms: in this way it permits us ―better than does the work of other philosophers― to grasp all that is involved, within the choice between tradition and argumentation, in the rejection of the latter.

Nietzsche's central obsession is hierarchy. He says so and repeats it: “Given that it is the problem of hierarchy of which we must speak, that it is the problem for us, free spirits.” Hierarchy: meaning both the problem of the hierarchy of values and praise of the values of the hierarchy. To think is, of course, to judge, but this in the sense of the value judgement.