The last Romantic: Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900) that where I have called the last
romantic, because if we think about the superman, that he has descripted,
through the words of Zarathustra in the book Thus spoke Zarathustra; where he
has theorized the superman, that isn’t absolutely real but alone a romantic
fantasy, for this the “romantic” of title; because Nietzsche has took the wit
of romanticism, this is the idealism, and he has translated it to an imaginary
figure of man that has overcame the minute and poor human impediments, this is
the moral, the myths as the science and the religion; we must also consider
that Nietzsche has also written during the second half of 19th
century, this is the Belle Époque, when the morality and the aesthetic were vital
for a middle class that was also the entrepreneur class, that has took his
industrial origin from the first industrial revolution in England(1760-1850),
that after is extended in everywhere in Europe, enclosed the Germany, then he
has undergone the wit of his century and the indirectly the Belle Époque, and
he moralism very hypocrites and conformist; he wanted alone go out from this
insincerity; inasmuch the superman is a reaction to this habit, but it is also
a the last result of a romantic wit that is rebel to these formal virtues, and
it is also the last but one Hegelian production, because the last is Giovanni
Gentile(1875-1944); Nietzsche has idealized the man and has thought a man that
overcomes every conformist impediment; it is the idealization of Romanticism,
the absolute spirit of Hegel, that certainly has influenced Nietzsche
radically, but he has idealized the figure that Hegel has never thought of man;
hence the mixed of Romantic and hegelian wit has created the superman, that
hasn’t the limits, the moral limits or conformist limits, because through the
adjective “moral”, we not must think that Nietzsche has authorized the illegal
and criminal acts, not absolutely, he has fought the moralism and the
conformism of his time; but I want alone consider that the roots of this think
are to the Romantic contrast and in the Hegelian philosophy, the absolute
spirit of Hegel is the translation, under other name, of superman, and we must
consider that may Nietzsche has very well understood Hegel because, differently
from Schopenhauer, he has attributed this power to a ideal man, ideal
certainly, hence imaginary, but alone a man, as Hegel has made for his absolute
spirit, that he has seen in the man; and Nietzsche has made the same thing,
Zarathustra is a man, as has been the authentic Zarathustra, that has been a prophet
of Mazdaism during the 9th and 8th century before Christ
in Iran; therefore Nietzsche has took a man that as a prophet has announced the
superman to other men, but everything is absolutely human; inasmuch Nietzsche
has translated the human power, that is prophetic, to the man contemporary to
him; whereby he has took the human nature and he has idealized the man
following the Romantic and absolute spirit.
Alessandro Lusana