Abstract

According to Nietzsche, a culture which establishes itself in terms of values and in itself represents the value of Europe as such, is obliged to raise the question of its own value. The experience of the critical modernity thus opens up through philosophical perception and understanding of culture so that the communication within the culture becomes critical. Together with Marx and Freud, Nietzsche stands in a row of critics of the Western culture in the second half of the 19th century, receiving a favorable reception in the 20th century. Actually, it is a lot more than just a reception; it is a manysided conceptual transformation of the self-comprehension of philosophy as a whole, which was given a strong impulse by thinkers such as Husserl, Wittgenstein and Heidegger. It is not so much the critique of morality in itself but rather the critique of the moral nature of logic that represents the break and conflict which Nietzsche introduced into modern philosophy. In this context, the word “introduce” proves adequate since it points to the interpretative moment of the break