JUNAK KAO OUTSIDER
THE HERO AS OUTSIDER

Summary/Abstract: The legend of Nietzsche is a modern legend of an isolated, conflict-ridden individual: the hero as outsider. He thinks more, knows more and suffers more than other people, and is consequently superior to them. Whatever is of value in himself, he has created from himself, for there is nothing external to him but the “compact majority” which is always in the wrong. When he speaks, he is usually misunderstood, and in any event, he can only be understood by isolated, conflict-ridden individuals like himself. Finally, he retreats to a safe distance where he and the compact majority become invisible to one another, but his image is preserved in his icon: the man who represents himself.

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