Nietzsche’s Racial Metaphysics

This lecture explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s relationship to race, hierarchy, and the metaphysics of “higher” and “lower” types. Dr. Taimur Rahman situates Nietzsche within the broader history of European aristocratic radicalism, anti-enlightenment, and the ideological construction of “the noble race.” Key themes include: • Nietzsche’s concept of the “noble type” and his racial metaphysics. • The relations between anti-Semitic and Nietzsche • How Losurdo’s Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel reframes Nietzsche as a theorist of domination • The genealogy of racial metaphysics in nineteenth-century Europe • Why Nietzsche became central to fascist intellectual culture