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This thesis analyses Fyodor Dostoyevsky's discussion of individual radicalisation and terrorism in three of his major novels: Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Devils. Whilst the issues of radical ideology and terrorism have often been independently discussed by Dostoyevsky scholars, little attention has been devoted to the study of the process of radicalisation undergone by Dostoyevsky's protagonists, whereby the extreme fulfilment of radical ideals culminates in political violence. This investigation traces the evolution of Dostoyevsky's individual in the context of the radically changing socio-political environment of nineteenth-century Russia. The development of this individual will be examined throughout the novels as he initially questions, and is hostile to, radical ideology, gradually embraces its tenets and tests its validity through the use of violence and eventually engages in terrorist activity. Dostoyevsky felt himself impotent in the face of the gradual assimilation of utilitarian, materialistic and nihilist ideals by the new generation of Russian intellectuals. In the emulation of Western revolutionary culture, he came to see a threat to Russian nationhood, to true Russian identity and to traditional Russian values such as Orthodox Christianity. In his novels he sought to examine and question the ideologies of leading theorists influenced by Western radical thought; ideologies that he believed were flawed, deceptive and contradictory. This study focuses on the development of the themes of radicalisation and terrorism in the three chosen novels. Emphasis is laid on the devastating impact of radical ideology and terrorist activity on the individual.

Reprendre contact avec les réalités de l’âme, rouvrir la source où l’être rejaillit éternellement : tel est l’idéal occulte, inavouable, d’où procède la poétique d’Hubert Aquin. Depuis sa jeunesse, Aquin s’emploie clandestinement à défaire les mailles de la conscience et à rebrousser chemin vers les arrière-plans ténébreux du Moi, vers le Plérôme de la vie nue. Il manœuvre pour se mettre au service de l’intentionnalité impersonnelle inscrite au plus profond de sa psyché, pour devenir l’instrument du vouloir aveugle « qui opère en lui comme une force d’inertie ». Son œuvre ne s’accomplit pas dans le texte, mais à rebours du texte, voire à rebours du langage ; elle se déploie sur le terrain d’une confrontation enivrée avec le Négatif — avec la Parole sacrée issue de l’abîme. En d’autres termes, elle prend la forme d’une Gnose, c’est-à-dire d’un exercice de dé-subjectivation, de destruction de soi, consistant à réaliser la connaissance participative de l’empreinte imaginale scellée derrière les barreaux de la finitude. Essentiellement consacrée à l’analyse de la dimension gnostique de l’œuvre d’Hubert Aquin, cette thèse vise à montrer que la connaissance du hiéroglyphe mystérieux gravé au fond de l’âme n’est pas une sinécure. Il s’agit plutôt d’un opus contra naturam qui comporte bien des risques (en tout premier lieu celui d’une inflation psychique). Pourtant, ce travail est aussi, aux yeux de l’auteur, le seul véritablement digne d’être accompli, celui qui donne à l’homme le moyen de se soustraire à l’engloutissement de la mort et la possibilité de renaître. Comme l’écrit Aquin dans un texte de jeunesse, l’ouverture inconditionnelle au Négatif (la destruction de soi) est « une façon privilégiée d’expérimenter la vie et un préalable à toute entreprise artistique » ; elle correspond à « un mode supérieur de connaissance », à un savoir « impersonnel » qui offre immédiatement le salut. / To reestablish contact with the realities of the soul, to reopen the source from which Being eternally resurges: such is the occult and unspeakable ideal from which Hubert Aquin’s poetics proceeds. From his youth onwards, Aquin secretly seeks to unravel the mesh of consciousness, in order to retrace the path leading back towards the dark nether regions of the Self, towards the Pleroma of the naked life. Thus he operates exclusively in the service of the impersonal intentionality inscribed in the depths of his psyche, as the instrument of the blind will that acts inside of him “like an inertial force”. His work does not fulfill itself in the text, but rather runs counter to the text, even counter to language itself; it deploys as an exhilarating confrontation with the Negative, with the sacred Word issuing from the abyss. In other words, Aquin’s work takes the form of a Gnosis: an exercise in de-subjectivization and self-destruction that consists in attaining participative knowledge of the imaginal seal imprinted behind the bars of finitude. This thesis, principally devoted to an analysis of the gnostic dimension of Hubert Aquin’s œuvre, aims to show that to decipher the mysterious hieroglyph engraved in the depths of the soul is no simple task: it is rather an opus contra naturam, involving great dangers (of which the first is the risk of psychic inflation); yet, to the author’s eyes, only this task is really necessary and truly worthy of being undertaken, for only by this means can the human being escape from engulfment in death – by being reborn. As Aquin writes in an early work, to open oneself unconditionally to the Negative (i.e., self-destruction) is “a special way of experiencing life and a prerequisite to any artistic enterprise”; it is equivalent to “a superior mode of knowledge” of an “impersonal” kind, promising immediate salvation.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver uma hipótese interpretativa sobre a grande política na filosofia de Friedrich Nietzsche, considerando o sentido deste conceito à luz do diagnóstico realizado pelo filósofo acerca do fenômeno global de desvalorização dos valores — o niilismo —, entendido como o evento por excelência que caracteriza a condição da modernidade ocidental. Inicialmente, procuramos estabelecer um diálogo com a interpretação de Keith Ansell-Pearson — que entende que a grande política seria uma proposta para o estabelecimento de um regime de governo aristocrático de cunho radicalmente aquiavelista. O objetivo de tal diálogo crítico é responder a esta leitura e a outras interpretações que compreendem a grande política nos moldes de uma proposta política tradicional. Num segundo momento, após uma breve discussão na qual nos posicionamos quanto aos critérios de leitura que irão orientar nosso trabalho, iniciamos a análise das passagens nas quais esta expressão ocorre, buscando destacar os dois sentidos com os quais o filósofo a emprega. Tanto em referência à política militarista e nacionalista do Reich alemão, como para significar sua própria proposta de cultivo de um novo tipo de homem de exceção. inda no segundo capítulo, com vistas a esclarecer o contexto a partir do qual emerge a preocupação do pensador com a grande política e sua respectiva crítica às práticas políticas do seu tempo, apresentamos o desenvolvimento das reflexões que integram seu diagnóstico sobre a condição da modernidade ocidental, como estando fundamentalmente marcada pelos fenômenos do niilismo e da décadence. Por fim, no terceiro e último capítulo, buscamos explicitar a grande política em seu segundo sentido, isto é, como proposta de cultivo de uma casta de homens espiritualmente destacados. Para tanto, consideramos esta expressão em seu aspecto morfológico, destacando as ressignificações operadas pelo filósofo com os termos “grande” e “política” e, em seguida, discorremos sobre as principais posturas espirituais que integram este exercício de cultivo e autolegislação: a valorização do conflito como ocasião para o fortalecim nto espiritual e o estabelecimento de uma hierarquia entre os homens segundo seus diferentes graus de forças psíquicas, por meio do pathos da distância, a partir do quê acreditamos ser possível concluir que este fortalecimento e cultivo seriam precisamente os meios propostos pelo filósofo para fazer frente ao problema do niilismo, não no sentido de evitar este evento, mas de buscar sua superação. / This work aims to develop an interpretative hypothesis about the Nietzschean concept of great politics, considering its meaning under the light of his diagnosis concerning the global phenomenon of devaluation of values — nihilism —, understood as the event par excellence that characterizes the condition of Western modernity. Initially, we have established a dialogue with Keith Ansell-Pearson’s interpretation of great poltics, which is interpreted as proposing the establishment of an aristocratic and Machiavellian form of government — in order to respond to this reading and to other interpretations that understand great politics in the manner of a traditional political proposal. Secondly, after a brief discussion in which we establish the reading criteria that will guide our work, we started the analysis of those passages in which this expression occurs, seeking to highlight the two different meanings with which the philosopher employs it. The concept of great politics appear both in reference to the nationalist and militarist policy of the German Reich and as referring to his own proposal for the cultivation of a new type of man. Still in the second chapter, in order to clarify the context out of which the thinker’s concern with great politics emerges and his respective critique of the political practices of his time, we present and discuss the philosopher’s reflections concerning his diagnosis about the condition of Western Modernity as being fundamentally marked by the phenomena of décadence and nihilism. Finally, in the third and final chapter, we seek to develop great politics in its second sense, ie, as a proposal for the cultivation of a caste of spiritually prominent men. For that purpose, we consider this expression in its morphological aspect, analyzing the reinterpretation of the words “great” and “politics” operated by the philosopher, as well as the major spiritual positions which integrate this exercise of cultivation and self-legislation: the evaluation of conflict as an occasion for the strengthening of the spirit and the establishment of a hierarchy between men according to their different degree of psychic forces, through the pathos of the distance, from what we believe to be possible to conclude that this strengthening and cultivation would be precisely the means proposed by the philosopher to deal with the problem of nihilism, not in the sense of avoiding this event, but seeking its overcoming.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:01:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 4 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Com este trabalho, procuramos demonstrar que a grande política é uma das tentativas de Nietzsche para superar o niilismo. Entretanto, além de não consegui-lo, sua proposta confronta-se com a democracia liberal da segunda metade do século XIX (o que contém certa dose de razão na medida em que detecta os traços niilistas passivos contidos nesse sistema político) e com a democracia de nossos dias, negando ao sujeito uma participação efetiva na política e seus rumos na sociedade, porquanto se assenta numa estrutura hierárquica de senhores e escravos, mesmo que com conotações espirituais, e não físicas, muitas vezes expressas de modo dúbio. Uma das conseqüências imediatas dessa proposição é o enraizamento da apatia política, traço inequívoco do niilismo passivo nas sociedades pós-modernas. Inspirada nos moldes gregos arcaicos e no radicalismo aristocrático, a sociedade aristocrática vislumbrada por Nietzsche seria conduzida pelo além-do-homem, ao longo da obra metaforizado como novo filósofo, filósofo legislador e / With this work we aim to demonstrate that great politics is one of the Nietzsche’s attempts to overcome nihilism. However, apart from didn’t make it, his proposal hatchs with liberal democracy of the second half XIX century (which have a certain reason element, because detect the passive nihilist traces contained in that political system) and with democracy of our time, denying to the individual one efective participation on politics and in society tacks, because it is based on a hierarchy structure of masters and slaves, even if with spiritual meaning, and not physical, many times expressed in a dubious way. One of the immediates consequences of that proposition its the rooting of political apathy, a unmisunderstantig trace of passive nihilism on postmodern societies. Inspired on greek arcaic casts, on the aristocratic radicalism, the aristocratic society glimpsed by Nietzsche has to be conducted by the beyond-man, along the nietzschian work metaphorized as new philosopher, legislator philosopher and aristoc

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Luiz Bueno.pdf: 2863096 bytes, checksum: 79a936abdcdf5879c4b18967c97478bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis researches how Franz Rosenzweig, the German Jewish philosopher and theologian, faces the challenges of relativism and nihilism. The works of Rosenzweig are the object of this research, especially his most important book, The Star of Redemption, along with the text named The New Thinking, whose aim was to serve as a preface to the main book and to clarify its meaning and content. Our hypothesis is that Rosenzweig´s philosophy makes itself able to face those challenges only when it assumes some categories from the traditional Jewish thinking when he makes his return to Judaism, and combines it with the existential and pragmatic sort of philosophy that he elaborates. He calls his own way of producing his philosophy as his Jewish method . This method presupposes a kind of thinking completely immersed in contingency and temporality, acknowledging the insufficiency and lack of ontological autonomy to man and also to the world and an existential attitude of walking alongside God. It also implies that one assimilates the language of Jewish tradition which will function as the means of expression of his philosophy. So, we will research Rosenzweig´s two main texts along with some supporting texts, among them some articles as well as some letters, where we can find some clarification about elements that he used to build his system of philosophy which make him able to face relativism and nihilism, and also to come up with his own form of rationality and existential attitudes. The use of traditional Jewish categories of thinking along with elements of existential and pragmatic philosophy will allow him to change the concept of nothing into a creative category and a point of departure to his own thinking. The nothing will never be a halt or an end point. Those characteristics will bestow the singularity and power of Rosenzweig´s work / Esta tese estuda o enfrentamento ao relativismo e ao niilismo empreendido pelo filósofo e teólogo judeu alemão Franz Rosenzweig. Para isso, nosso objeto de estudo é a obra de Rosenzweig, particularmente seu livro mais importante, A Estrela da Redenção, juntamente com o texto O Novo Pensamento, escrito posteriormente pelo filósofo para servir como prefácio ao seu livro principal, visando esclarecer seu conteúdo e sua estrutura. Nossa hipótese é de que o pensamento de Rosenzweig se torna apto a enfrentar aqueles desafios na medida em que assimila categorias do pensamento judaico tradicional, que o autor assume a partir de seu retorno ao judaísmo, e as concilia com a filosofia de cunho existencial e pragmático que ele elabora. A forma de produzir este seu sistema de filosofia, que o pensador chama de novo pensamento, é definida por ele mesmo como o seu método judaico. Este método implica adotar um pensamento mergulhado na contingência e na temporalidade, assumindo a insuficiência e não-autonomia ontológica tanto do homem quanto do mundo. Também significa uma atitude existencial que assume que se caminha sempre ao lado de Deus. Implica, ainda, assimilar a linguagem da tradição judaica que será o meio de expressão de seu pensamento. Assim, investigaremos os dois textos principais de Rosenzweig com o auxílio de outros textos importantes, produzidos na forma de artigos e de cartas, nos quais se pode encontrar os elementos constituintes de seu pensamento e que revelam os seus recursos racionais e existenciais para enfrentar o relativismo e o niilismo e para propor sua própria perspectiva para a racionalidade assim como para a existência. A assimilação de categorias judaicas bem como de elementos da filosofia existencial e pragmática permitirão ao autor tornar o nada uma categoria criativa e um ponto de partida de seu sistema de pensamento, jamais um fim ou uma chegada. Estas características conferirão singularidade e potência à obra de Franz Rosenzweig

Este trabalho teve por propósito abordar a filosofia de Max Stirner sob a perspectiva de que em seus textos os elementos delineadores do discurso filosófico moderno, dialética do esclarecimento e crítica radical da razão, convergem em uma crítica peculiar da modernidade em seu todo. Pode-se dizer que se, por um lado, tal crítica se encontra em continuidade com a filosofia jovem hegeliana, por outro, apresenta-se enquanto uma espécie de culminação antitética da mesma, colocando-se assim como que ao lado da tradição da crítica radical da razão que remonta a Nietzsche. Segundo essa nossa proposta interpretativa, aí se esboçaria um discurso filosófico da modernidade cuja peculiaridade seria de ora se assemelhar a uma, ora a outra forma de crítica que é feita à racionalidade centrada no sujeito. A análise dos textos de Stirner que então aqui se propõe visa mostrar como tal discurso se constitui e como o filósofo tem a intenção de levá-lo a um ponto culminante de onde não pode prosseguir seu rumo sem negar seus pressupostos. Isso demonstraria que a filosofia stirneriana não participa do discurso filosófico da modernidade como uma tentativa fracassada de sair dele, senão que o afirmaria enquanto momento necessário capaz de nos colocar diante de um novo limiar histórico. A crítica da modernidade que Stirner realiza quer assim, a um só tempo, ser a realização da filosofia moderna, pelas mostras que dá de sua fidelidade ao paradigma da filosofia do sujeito, e sua negação, ao apresentar o niilismo como a sua verdade. Nesse sentido, ela também seria antimoderna, na medida em que só pode se afirmar (paradoxalmente) em função da negação do próprio paradigma a que ainda se encontra vinculada, mas como sua expressão última que se nega ao se autodissolver, revelando, destarte, o único (o nada) como passagem para o absolutamente outro da modernidade. / The purpose of this study was to discuss Max Stirners philosophy from a perspective in which, in his works, the defining elements of modern philosophical discourse, \"dialectic of enlightenment\" and \"radical critique of reason\", converge in a peculiar critique of modernity as a whole. If, on the one hand, this criticism is in continuity with the young Hegelian philosophy, on the other hand, it presents itself as a kind of antithetical completion of this philosophy, placing itself alongside the tradition of radical critique of reason that goes back to Nietzsche. According to this interpretative proposal, it would be outlined a \"philosophical discourse of modernity\" whose peculiarity would be precisely to resemble sometimes one, sometimes the other form of critique that is made to this subject-centered rationality. The analysis of Stirnerian texts that is proposed here, then, aims to show how such discourse constitutes itself and how the philosopher intends to take it to a climax where it cannot continue its original course without denying its assumptions. This would demonstrate that the Stirnerian philosophy does not participate in philosophical discourse of modernity as a \"failed attempt\" to leave it but as a necessary moment, capable of putting ourselves to face a new historical threshold. In this way, it is assumed that the critique of modernity performed by Stirner wants to be at the same time the realization of modern philosophy which can be noted by his allegiance to the paradigm of the philosophy of the subject , and its denial by presenting nihilism as its truth. In this sense, it would also be anti-modern, because it can only affirm itself (paradoxically) on account of a disavowal of the paradigm with which it is committed, though as its ultimate expression, an expression that deny itself when it self dissolves, thus revealing the unique one (the nothing) as a passage to the absolute other of modernity.

What or who is the modern subject? Are people sovereign, filled with passion, creativity, freedom and autonomy; or are we slaves, robots and automatons forever tied to the chains of civilization? It is very common to critique modernity. From the Frankfurt school to Foucault, many seem to have focused primarily on its negative characteristics including the promotion of narcissism and its contribution to alienation and depression. However, this work arose from my general ambivalence toward how society, and ideology, impacts notions of the self or, more importantly, self-consciousness and autonomy. In this work I tried to offer a framework that not only challenges the tenets of a way of conceptualising the human subject by means of extreme objectivity, which is aligned with notions of cognitivism and stems, I argue, from the worldview of Protestantism, but also its antithesis, extreme subjectivity that manifests itself in intense hubris that can present a very real danger to the very foundations of civilization. Thus, the work takes aim at both the consequence of extreme objectivity i.e. nihilism, inherent within some of the tenets of contemporary capitalism, and extreme subjectivity i.e. relativism. This work provides a historical analysis starting with the Protestant Reformation and ending with Contemporary Capitalism. By doing so, I was able to emphasise a new conceptualisation of the master-slave dialectic into a hierarchal structure beginning with the Absolute Master and ending with the Quinary Master vis-à-vis death to work. What I demonstrated, and reinforced, is the notion that human consciousness is a highly complex hybrid of interacting master-slave dynamics that is fuelled by fantasy, structured by the law, is seized upon by the government and the marketplace and finally put to work. However, the essential core of the subject is a radical void that simply punches a hole through the processes of the unconscious, which is swallowed up by the desire of the other i.e. the desire of these given masters. Depression's genesis I view as the subject yielding too much to the desire of a specific type of societal structure. This reached its peak with the Puritans in England during the 16th and 17th century that aimed to purge any type of transcendent experience, which is characteristic of fantasy and led to widespread misery. On the other hand, the period of Romanticism led to a colossal eruption of the imagination that attempted to bypass established conventions and flooded the world with colour. However, this anarchistic worldview presented an extremely dangerous threat to the very foundation of society and thus had to be brought to heel by an evolved state structure. The overall structure of the work is based on a gradual unfolding of a hierarchical system starting with the very foundations of the subject, through the complexities of ideological influence and ending with the subject under contemporary capitalism. The final two chapters aimed to contemporise the critiques from Romanticism toward the Enlightenment by attacking the tenets of cognitivism as being indicative of a system put forward by thinkers prevalent in the 18th century that abstracted the human condition and tried to objectify the psyche. The scope of the work is large and diverse and hopes to contribute to psychoanalytical and philosophical literature by providing a hierarchical system of the master-slave dialectic in the development of self-consciousness. The work also provides a critique of ideology by highlighting how a certain structure of society can contribute to neurosis by either prohibiting or liberating fantasy. I do not endorse the cliché and wholly hostile view toward capitalism, but support the notion that one should remain ambivalent. That is to say that the work highlights that the free market is indeed innocent but only becomes problematic when it begins to work in collusion with a specific state system. In supporting the argument of Protestantism being closely tied to the development of capitalism, what should be viewed with great precaution is the very definition of what is deemed a beneficial characteristic. This meritocratic worldview is indeed essential to stave off overreach from politics, however, and as Rousseau addressed, the concept of meritocracy can promote a society of selfishness and pride as well as reinforce what I call the standard route via new forms of management, leading to a reduction of autonomy and enhancement of conformity. In attempting to generate this framework, I have utilised multiple philosophical paradigms including ancient Greek, Continental, Romantic, Idealist, Psychoanalysis and more to provide an eclectic approach to this inquiry. What the reader will take away from this project is a unique and new understanding of the individual, how the subject is impacted from engaging with different societal systems and a warning of what can happen if one submits too much to passion or reason.

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Specifically, the study has as its object of investigation the malaise of high school teachers of Uberlândia-MG, seeking to answer to the research problem, and thus understand the reasons of the malaise of this group of teachers. Therefore, it was held, in addition to bibliographical research about the topic, empirical research with a qualitative approach, which relied on data from oral sources. From the interviews, we seek to give voice to the anguish that reaches teachers in professional practice, trying to understand what is found behind the typical symptoms of malaise teaching, such as apathy, discouragement, frustration, physical and psychological diseases, and other issues discussed on the script. We also seek to shed light the context of career choice, the practice of teaching and historically constructed representations of teaching. In this study, we worked with two theoretical approaches to understand the reasons of the malaise: the psychoanalysis, of Freud, and the philosophy, of Nietzsche. Besides the classic texts of the authors, we based ourselves on texts by contemporary authors, descendants of these theoretical perspectives. The referential of Freud gives us a historical and structural analysis of the malaise in humanity; while Nietzsche enables us a culturalist view of some phenomena that are shown associated with that anguish that affects many teachers. We verified that some reasons of the malaise in high school are associated to failures of the educational process as operator of interdiction of students; the degenerescence and depreciation of some values in the educational field, more specifically the values of social recognition, teacher authority, and social ascension values attributed for education, and the "place mater" of knowledge attributed to the school. These failures characterize a nihilistic experience in the Nietzschean vision of sense of orphanhood, arising from the debacle of values that guided the magisterium, besides a complex movement of self-harm and inverted valuations , interpreted as action of bad conscience. All these factors are shown up as result of impasses constituted in community living and in the regulations that seek to regulate it, being these norms conceived as a state of civilization, morality, or simply as social ethics. The research results indicate the state of passivity and hopelessness of some teachers front of these issues. Having analyzed the reasons for the malaise, the research concludes that a overrun of this state of passivity requires the decoupling of the discourse that puts the teacher as a hostage and victim of these dilemmas. The study shows, for these teachers, the need for the exercise of their desire to potency, human power affirmative. It also postulates the importance of reinventing a new ethic school that reconciles the cultural and social changes of contemporaneity to the requirements for maintenance of community life with fewer conflicts / O presente estudo propõe uma investigação sobre o mal-estar docente, compreendendo-o como parte de um fenômeno social e cultural maior presente em toda sociedade ocidental contemporânea, mas que ganha características peculiares no exercício do magistério. De forma específica, o estudo tem como objeto de investigação o mal-estar dos professores do ensino médio de Uberlândia- MG, buscando responder ao problema de pesquisa, e, assim, compreender as razões do mal-estar desse grupo de professores. Para tanto, foi realizada, além de pesquisas bibliográficas sobre o tema, pesquisa empírica com abordagem qualitativa, a qual se apoiou em dados de fontes orais. A partir das entrevistas, procuramos dar voz à angústia que atinge os professores em exercício profissional, buscando entender o que se encontra por traz de sintomas típicos do mal-estar docente, como apatia, desânimo, frustração, adoecimento físico e psíquico, além de outras questões abordadas no roteiro. Buscamos também trazer à cena o contexto da escolha profissional, do exercício do magistério e as representações da docência construídas historicamente. Neste estudo, trabalhamos com duas correntes teóricas para a compreensão das razões do mal-estar: a psicanálise, de Freud, e a filosofia, de Nietzsche. Além dos textos clássicos dos autores, apoiamo-nos em textos de autores contemporâneos, descendentes dessas correntes teóricas. O referencial de Freud nos fornece uma análise histórica e estrutural sobre o mal-estar na humanidade; enquanto o de Nietzsche nos possibilita uma visão culturalista de alguns fenômenos que se mostraram associados a essa angústia que atinge muitos docentes. Verificamos que algumas razões do mal-estar no ensino médio estão associadas às falhas do processo educacional enquanto operador de interdição dos alunos; a degenerescência e depreciação de alguns valores no campo educacional, mais especificamente dos valores de reconhecimento social, autoridade docente; e os valores de ascensão social atribuídos à educação, e de “lugar mater” do conhecimento atribuído à escola. Essas falhas caracterizam uma experiência niilista, na visão nietzschiana de sentimento de orfandade, oriundo da derrocada de valores que orientavam o magistério; além de um complexo movimento de autoagressão e valorizações invertidas, interpretados como ação da má consciência. Todos esses fatores mostram-se como sendo resultado de impasses constituídos na convivência comunitária e nas normatizações que procuram regulá-la, sejam essas normas concebidas como estado de civilização, de moral, ou simplesmente como ética social. Os resultados da pesquisa apontam o estado de passividade e desesperança de alguns professores diante dessas questões. Tendo analisado as razões do malestar, a pesquisa conclui que uma superação desse estado de passividade exige a desvinculação do discurso que coloca o docente como refém e vítima desses dilemas. O estudo aponta, para esses professores, a necessidade do exercício de sua vontade de potência, força humana afirmativa. Postula, ainda, a importância de se reinventar uma nova ética escolar, que concilie as mudanças culturais e sociais da contemporaneidade às exigências para manutenção da vida comunitária com menos conflitos.