Pathos of Distance

Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche''s image of a “pathos of distance,” the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche''s and Benjamin''s ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through fig...