Nikolai Fedorov as a Critic of Nietzsche’s Cultural Concept
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of the study is to elucidate the critical stance of Nikolai Fedorov, known as the “Moscow Socrates”, to-ward the cultural concepts of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The study examines Fedorov’s de-tailed analysis of the evolution of Nietzsche’s cultural concept, which he evaluates extremely negatively, char-acterizing Nietzsche himself as “the philosopher of an era of complete degeneration”. Particular attention is paid to Fedorov’s assessment of the inception of Nietzsche’s creative activity as the proclamation of a “culture of tragic worldview”, imbued with profound pessimism. He connects the subsequent development of Nie-tzschean ideas with the “so-called culture”, the result of which is “the development of a higher type”, i.e. the su-perman. The culture of the superman is the culture of a handful of masters who rule “over a herd of weak and weak-willed slaves”. Slavery, according to Fedorov, is a necessary condition of Nietzschean “culture”. The methodological basis for N. Fedorov’s criticism of the Nietzschean concept of culture is the Common Cause, a global cultural project involving the “resurrection of the fathers”. N. Fedorov contrasts this project with F. Nie-tzsche’s concept of “eternal return”. He reveals an acute contradiction between the cultural ideas of early Nie-tzsche and his subsequent concept of the superman: Nietzsche began by describing a dionistic, intoxicating admiration for the elemental forces of nature, and ended with the idea of amor fati – the love of unconscious Rock. For the “Moscow Socrates”, amor fati stands as the pinnacle of immorality.
Author: Gennady P. Otyutskiy
Language: Russian
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416397486
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