Nietzsche, by no means extemporaneously, resorts to an ambitious historic-dialectical narrative, typically young Hegelian, to frame/ evaluate Modernity, elevate his own philosophy to unmatchable heights and find for himself an absolutely superior, unique position which authorizes himself as absolute Critic and Destiny, having ultimately as his main target (typical of his German times) the "philistine", the common human individual, and that which politically corresponds to her/him: civil society and democracy. That does not exclude our interest in his remarkable cultural criticism, his non-reductionist, romantic, naturalism, his contributions to the critique of "Platonism" and "Cartesianism".
transcendental authorization; philosophy of history; antithetic dialectics; modernity and democracy