The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns by Jean-Michel Rabaté

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-210
Author(s):  
Rochelle Rives
Keyword(s):  
Pathos Of Distance

Pity, Tragedy and the Pathos of Distance

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Conolly
Keyword(s):  
Pathos Of Distance

Pathos of Distance

2019 ◽  
pp. 192-215
Keyword(s):  
Pathos Of Distance

The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns by Jean-Michel Rabaté

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 384-387
Author(s):  
Ruben Borg
Keyword(s):  
Pathos Of Distance

scholarly journals The pathos of distance and difference: Benjamin' interpretation of the platonic eros

2011 ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Gilmário Guerreiro da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Pathos Of Distance

Democracy and the Nietzschean Pathos of Distance

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Gabriel Zamosc ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Life Worth Living ◽  
Psychological Demand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Higher Types ◽  
The Common ◽  
Equal Respect ◽  
Common Man ◽  
Pathos Of Distance

In this paper I discuss the Nietzschean notion of a pathos of distance, which some democratic theorists would like to recruit in the service of a democratic ethos. Recently their efforts have been criticized on the basis that the Nietzschean pathos of distance involves an aristocratic attitude of essentializing contempt towards the common man that is incompatible with the democratic demand to accord everyone equal respect and dignity. I argue that this criticism is misguided and that the pathos in question involves encouraging the fl ourishing of higher types that give meaning and justification to the social order. For Nietzsche, the experience of living under a society that is thus organized leads to the psychological demand to search for spiritual states within a person that can make life worth living. I conclude by considering whether, so conceived, the pathos of distance is compatible with democracy.

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