PATHOS OF DISTANCE

Jean-Michel Rabate uses Nietzsche's image of a pathos of distance, the notion that certain values cannot originate in a community bu t are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. T he expression of pathos of distance impressed would-be modernists like the American James Huneker and the Irish poet W. B. Yeats as they confronted the new in the arts. Later, it helped Deleuze and Barthes make sense of modernity when they tried to tease out the d ifferenti...[Read more]