Industrial, nationalist and anthropological Revolution in Mario Morasso’s Nietzschean and mythopoetic Writing
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20-12-2016
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No 28 (2016): Revisiting Revolution in History. Introduction, Articles
Submitted: 20-06-2016
Accepted: 31-10-2016
Published: 20-12-2016
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to clarify the way in which the Industrial Revolution was experienced and
described as a radical change in man’s mode of being. Such a transformation was mainly conceived
of as a negative one, leading to man’s dehumanization, as witnessed by Marx, Huizinga, Orwell,
D.H. Lawrence, Adorno and Horkheimer. By contrast, Mario Morasso maintained that technics had
given birth to a kind of Nietzschean overman because he wanted to argue the case for the technological
modernization required to trigger a nationalist revolution. To this end, he made use of a form
of writing centered on political myths.
described as a radical change in man’s mode of being. Such a transformation was mainly conceived
of as a negative one, leading to man’s dehumanization, as witnessed by Marx, Huizinga, Orwell,
D.H. Lawrence, Adorno and Horkheimer. By contrast, Mario Morasso maintained that technics had
given birth to a kind of Nietzschean overman because he wanted to argue the case for the technological
modernization required to trigger a nationalist revolution. To this end, he made use of a form
of writing centered on political myths.
Keywords:
Industrial Revolution, Morasso, Nietzsche, Ju?nger
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