Abstract:
Aware of the European attempts of political appropriation of Nietzsche’s thought, Lafayette concluded in 1942 that the German philosopher could not be considered neither the bastion of the revolutionary left nor the reactionary right-wing exponent. A singular genius, it would be more adequate to consider him the “superlative expression of the huge contradictions of his species.” An antidemocratic thinker, he would be, as Plato, worried in reforming a “guiding elite,” whose political hierarchy should be founded on the intellectual hierarchy.
Keywords:
Nietzsche; Europe; politics; genius; hierarchy