Logos and its Feignings. Will to Power, Groundlessness and the Decorum Will to Power, Groundlessness and the Decorum of Civilisations

Abstract

The article aims to explore a characteristically twentieth-century paradox: the simultaneous success and failure of logos. While the century witnessed extraordinary achievements in science and technology, it also saw a profound crisis of foundations – a dramatic disintegration of the very supports that had sustained the Western tradition. Not only were traditional anchors such as God and consciousness called into question, but even more fundamental structures – writing, the alphabet, the very notions of rationality and causality – came under critical scrutiny, revealing their limits. This collapse gives rise to two opposing forms of nihilism, which can no longer be disguised or sublimated, as great thinkers and artists of the past had once managed to do. In this context, concepts such as the socalled sensus communis and the decorum of civilizations are reconsidered – not as static monuments of inherited tradition, but as dynamic legacies that must be continually rethought and kept alive through the movement of thought.