NIETZSCHE’S HISTORICAL CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL: ‘THE END OF HISTORY’?

Year 2009, Volume: 27 Issue: 1, 305 - 325, 01.07.2009

Nevio Chırıstante

Abstract

Hegel’den sonraki
iki yüzyıllık dönemde yaşanan olaylar, düşünürün “tarihin sonu” kuramına ait
olan önemli bir unsurda zıtlıklar ve şüpheci yaklaşımların ortaya çıkmasına yol
açmıştır.  Bu, Hegel’in “tarihte
ilerleme” iddiasını nihilizme dönüştürerek tamamen tersine çevirir: “Batı’nın” “üstünlüğü” değerleri
Nietzsche tarafından bütünüyle değersiz hale dönüştürülar. Böyle bir tarih
anlayışına sahip çıkmak ancak çağdaş insanın küresel dünyadaki ilişkilerde
yaşadığı büyük sıkıntıyı gizlemeye yarar. Hegel’ci tarihselcilik (anlayışı) ile
çerçevesindeki modern ideolojiler artık kullanılmayan, yarıltıcı ideolojiler.
Bugün, günümüzün süregiden tahrip edici ve yıpratıcı faaliyetlerinin esas
kaynağı olarak görülmektedirler. Bunlar, nihilizmin arsız tohumlarıdır.
Nietzsche, “kesin dönüşün tarihsel bilinci” ile modern nihilist eğilimleri
ortadan kaldırmaya çalışır. Kötü niyetli Batılı modern “tarihin sonu” görüsüne
son verecek, hayata yeniden anlamlı bir canlılık kazandıracak, yaratıcı ve
özgürleştirici yeni bir tarih anlayışının ortaya çıkacağı söylenmektedir.

 

Keywords

Son, tarih, ilerleme, sonsuz (ebedi) dönüşüm, modern

NIETZSCHE’S HISTORICAL CONFRONTATION WITH HEGEL: ‘THE END OF HISTORY’?

Abstract

The events
two-full centuries after Hegel have brought one essential element of his “end
of history” into extreme doubt and contradiction. It completely overturns the
claim of “progress in history,” to one ending in nihilism: the values of
‘superiority’ of the ‘West’ are capsized into sheer devaluation by Nietzsche.
Any claim of progress to a culmination of history only hides the extreme
malaise of contemporary man in global affairs. Modern ideologies, enframed
within Hegelian historicism, are illusory and no longer admireable practices.
They are now seen as major sources of the on-going destructive and denigrating
activities of the present-day. They are the encroaching seeds of nihilism.
Nietzsche, through the historical consciousness of “eternal return,” seeks to
overcome the modern nihilistic tendencies. A new creative and liberating form
of history is affirmed that reinvigorates a meaningful vitality back into life,
which “ends” the malignant modern Western view of the “end of history” through
progress.

  

Keywords

End, history, progress, eternal return, modern

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