{"id":57,"date":"2005-07-21T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2005-07-22T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T05:46:02","slug":"il-faut-tuer-les-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/nietzsche\/il-faut-tuer-les-passions-57","title":{"rendered":"il faut tuer les passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The church fights passion with excision in every sense: its practice, its \u201ccure,\u201d\u009d is castratism. It never asks: \u201cHow can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a craving?\u201d\u009d\t\u2014 It has at all times laid the stress of discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of the lust to rule, of avarice, of vengefulness).\t\u2014 But an attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life: the practice of the church is hostile to life &#8230; [Nietzsche, <em>Twilight of the Idols<\/em>, \u201cMorality as Anti-Nature\u201d\u009d, 1889, sec. 1. (Kaufmann trans.).]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nietzsche\u2019s sensibilities recall, in some measure, D. H. Lawrence\u2019s vituperations in a similar vein some years later, especially in his <em>Study of Thomas Hardy<\/em>. Except for sensuality, the other victimized passions are all emblematically masculine. As with Lawrence, Nietzsche attempts to establish a masculine territorial presence here below in rebellion against otherworldly imperative. This endears him to that strain of feminism utterly uncomprehending of any such ambitions. But Lawrence&#8217;s and Nietzsche&#8217;s passions betray the pull, the very real force that must be contended with, lending their case the air of tragedy in the face of exuberance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church fights passion with excision in every sense: its practice, its \u201ccure,\u201d\u009d is castratism. It never asks: \u201cHow can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a craving?\u201d\u009d \u2014 It has at all times laid the stress of discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of the lust to rule, of avarice, of vengefulness). \u2014 But an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/nietzsche\/il-faut-tuer-les-passions-57\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;il faut tuer les passions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}