About the book: year / “The power of destruction beats with the power of creation” Chapter one Branching crises When we are dealing with a major thinker, he is always right about something ; You can’t throw Nietzsche out of history, you can’t throw Marx out. The sense of God was really dying in Western civilization, and Nietzsche's hyperbole - God is dead! - remained as a sign of the beginning of the disaster. Buber more accurately called it the eclipse of God. But in hyperbole, in “undeveloped tension” (as Hegel would say), in “passionate one-sidedness” (in my language) there is the energy of discovery, and the culture does not forget the formulas in which this energy is imprinted. They are somewhat valuable in understanding what happened. Probably because great things are never born sluggishly, in semi-darkness, without a bright flash that both illuminates and blinds. ...