{"id":61,"date":"2005-07-22T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2005-07-23T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T21:14:52","slug":"a-solidarity-of-instinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/nietzsche\/a-solidarity-of-instinct-61","title":{"rendered":"a solidarity of instinct"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols<\/em>, 1889, Kaufmann translation, \u201cSkirmishes of an Untimely Man\u201d\u009d, sec. 39:<\/p>\n

..The rationality of marriage\t\u2014that lay in the husband’s sole juridical responsibility, which gave marriage a center of gravity, while today it limps on both legs. The rationality of marriage\t\u2014that lay in its indissolubility in principle, which lent it an accent that could be heard above<\/em> the accident of feeling, passion, and what is merely momentary. It also lay in the family’s responsibility for the choice of a spouse. With the growing indulgence of love<\/em> matches, the very foundation of marriage has been eliminated, that which alone makes<\/em> an institution of it. Never, absolutely never, can an institution be founded on an idiosyncrasy; one cannot<\/em>, as I have said, found marriage on \u201clove\u201d\u009d\t\u2014it can be founded on the sex drive, on the property drive (wife and child as property), on the drive to dominate<\/em>, which continually organizes for itself the smallest structure of domination, the family, and which needs<\/em> children and heirs to hold fast\t\u2014physiologically too\t\u2014to an attained measure of power, influence, and wealth, in order to prepare for long-range tasks, for a solidarity of instinct between the centuries. Marriage as an institution involves the affirmation of the largest and most enduring form of organization: when society cannot affirm<\/em> itself as a whole, down to the most distant generations, then marriage has altogether no meaning.\t\u2014 Modern marriage has lost<\/em> its meaning\t\u2014consequently one abolishes it. \t\u2014 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The creation of enduring institutions is the male heterocosmic reaching out beyond its mortal confinement. It is his<\/em> only chance at this. She has a more organic connection, saving her this trouble at least. It has lost its meaning because it has come to be seen as a luxury for her and for him slightly shameful. She has other options. He, at long last, is coming to realize what his real business is… But for a long time yet the practice will continue in the way some still say ‘Bless you!’ at another’s sneeze—without actually fretting the soul’s displacement by a demon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, \u201cSkirmishes of an Untimely Man\u201d\u009d, sec. 39: ..The rationality of marriage \u2014that lay in the husband’s sole juridical responsibility, which gave marriage a center of gravity, while today it limps on both legs. The rationality of marriage \u2014that lay in its indissolubility in principle, which lent it … <\/p>\n

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