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The fifth lesson comes from Nietzsche. On the Genealogy of Morals is a complicated and dense work. But is the one intended by Nietzsche to re-educate readers into something we now call postmodernism. Nietzsche’s strategy is to confront readers with a challenge, which is to recover their greatness by abandoning or destroying egalitarian morality, and preparing for the return of a culture of human greatness.
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Uhr, J. (2018). Reading Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals . In: Performing Political Theory . Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7998-6_6
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