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This essay takes Nietzsche’s “thesis”—that truth is sought only when it serves life—as its starting point to explore the mechanisms of symbolic stabilization that sustain the narrative cohesion of individuals and societies. Rather than opposing Nietzsche to the Ontology of Emerging Complexity (OEC), the text reveals how certain Nietzschean diagnoses anticipate, in psychological and cultural language, dynamics that the OEC interprets on an ontological level. Narrative stabilization, far from being a cognitive error, is presented as a normal and necessary function in the process of matter’s complexification. From this convergence, the text proposes that truth is not an absolute value, but a functional operator acting within cycles of stabilization and reorganization. The survival of the narrative is thus understood as part of a structural interplay between form and excess, where ethics emerges as a situated response to the tension between what is preserved and what is transformed. This reading allows us to reconfigure the role of truth, not as an end in itself, but as a transitory element within a system in constant variation.
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Title The Survival of the Narrative: Nietzsche, Truth, and Self-Preservation
This essay takes Nietzsche’s “thesis”—that truth is sought only when it serves life—as its starting point to explore the mechanisms of symbolic stabilization that sustain the narrative cohesion of individuals and societies. Rather than opposing Nietzsche to the Ontology of Emerging Complexity (OEC), the text reveals how certain Nietzschean diagnoses anticipate, in psychological and cultural language, dynamics that the OEC interprets on an ontological level. Narrative stabilization, far from being a cognitive error, is presented as a normal and necessary function in the process of matter’s complexification. From this convergence, the text proposes that truth is not an absolute value, but a functional operator acting within cycles of stabilization and reorganization. The survival of the narrative is thus understood as part of a structural interplay between form and excess, where ethics emerges as a situated response to the tension between what is preserved and what is transformed. This reading allows us to reconfigure the role of truth, not as an end in itself, but as a transitory element within a system in constant variation.
Work type Literary: Other
Tags symbolic reinscription, genealogy, normative exclusion, origin, emergence, ontology of complexity
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