Resumen de “The Good Europeans”: Nietzsche and the Belated Nation Syndrome
Few texts can match the perspicacity about the sources of nationalism of the eighth section of Beyond Good and Evil (=BGE) –“People and Countries”–, in which Nietzsche focuses primarily on the narcotic properties of an exacerbated patriotism, one that aims to harden the spirit and, in the case of Germany, to pervert the healthy “development” of an individual’s interaction with the surrounding human, social and natural environment. Nietzsche believed that there was something profoundly childish, characteristic of one that has grown old but is unaware of his real age, in the circumlocutions that lead to an obsession with one’s own nation. This thinker argues for the possibilities of production and respect for differences that one might expect from the type of integration that results from the European synthesis.
