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[–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's a factual truth, i went as far a linking the Wikipedia page. You don't have to believe to me as a person, just read the article or the books.

Linking the Wikipedia page of Gilles Deleuze does not at all imply that the modern left is Nietzschean. Even Deleuze himself is not a Nietzschean. Do you consider Muslims to be Christians too, since they acknowledge Jesus as a prophet?

None of them was a philosopher. Junger was a novel writer who wrote a few essays.

That's an extremely uncharitable way to describe Junger.

He never got a tenure, precisely because he wasn't saying anything new or particularly interesting, unlike Schmitt, Heidegger o Deleuze. No one study Junger in a philosophy class - unlike Schmitt, Heidegger o Deleuze. He is studied in literature classes.

I do not consider university academics to be the final arbiters on what is and is not philosophy.

[–]Rakean93Identitarian socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I do not consider university academics to be the final arbiters on what is and is not philosophy.

Universities are where philosophy is made since the start of the holy Roman empire. You can go this ruote and create an alternative reality where you are the ultimate master of everything, but that's not how things works in Europe right now.

About the wiki page, it was the only way for me to prove my point quickly. Again, you can downplay the fact the Nietzsche is at the roots of postmodernism, but that doesn't change the fact that he, in fact, is at roots of postmodernism. That's not a personal stance of mine, is a well recognized fact.

[–]NeoRail 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Universities are where philosophy is made since the start of the holy Roman empire. You can go this ruote and create an alternative reality where you are the ultimate master of everything, but that's not how things works in Europe right now.

Especially right now, I do not really trust the universities to produce anything particularly intelligent.

About the wiki page, it was the only way for me to prove my point quickly. Again, you can downplay the fact the Nietzsche is at the roots of postmodernism, but that doesn't change the fact that he, in fact, is at roots of postmodernism. That's not a personal stance of mine, is a well recognized fact.

That is a reasonable claim, I can agree with that. That's different from saying that the modern left is Nietzschean, though. Contemporary leftism incorporates postmodern elements, and postmodernism incorporates elements of Nietzsche's work, but leftism and Nietzscheanism considered as a whole are strongly antithetical.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said. You can in fact be a right-wing postmodernist.