Untrustworthiness of Troubadour's mask

In: Zbornik Matice Srpske za društvene nauke: Proceedings for social sciences, Heft 173, S. 25-36

Abstract

Troubadour? mask denotes a figure activated by Nietzsche in order to arrange
a quarrel with his own time. Transformative capacities of its untimilyness
were examined from the perspective of the contemporary instability of
democratic order, recognized by bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev
as an expression of encreasing crisis of the trust in the democratic order.
Unlike Krastev?s thesis, this paper uncovers that the process of
absolutization of trust caracterizes a trajectory from religious faith to
antidemocratical, slave-like totalitarian submission. Its conclusion claims
that maximalized trust leads to a totalitarian subject, who is unevitably
dumb, speechless, deprived of language, explicitly different from all
characteristics of Aristotelian political being whose crucial gift was
logos. Consequently, the ruth of contemporary mistrust is not
antidemocratical, as claimed by Krastev, but reflects an outstanding
democratical orientation and presents a direct consequence of the resistance
towards the cult of leader.