Trevor,
I'm off to Canberra tonight. So this is just a short note. My posting will probably be light over the next 4 days.
The recent entries on Bataille about the path to spirituality and the morality of decline reminds me of Nietzsche's ideas about a declining life.
Declining life for Nietzsche represents a reduction in vigor and capacity to enrich life. It contributes to a decrease in life.
Nietzsche contrasts this modality with an ascending life (Bataille's moral summit), which represents an incrment in vigor and capacity to enrich life.
An example of a declinig life is a life devoted to altruism which he sees as an example of slave morality based on self-denying value.
Bataille is working within the horizons of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at March 21, 2004 10:11 AM | TrackBack