Magneto (birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik Lehnsherr and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover-dated September 1963) as an adversary of the X-Men.
The character is a powerful mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities, who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species. Writers have since fleshed out his origins and motivations, revealing him to be a Holocaust survivor whose extreme methods and cynical philosophy derive from his determination to protect mutants from suffering a similar fate at the hands of a world that fears and persecutes them. He is a friend of Professor X, the leader of the X-Men, but their different philosophies cause a rift in their friendship at times. Magneto’s role in comics has progressed from supervillain to antihero to superhero, having served as an occasional ally and member of the X-Men, even leading the New Mutants for a time as headmaster of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
Ian McKellen has portrayed Magneto in various films since X-Men in 2000, while Michael Fassbender has portrayed a younger version of the character in the prequel films since X-Men: First Class in 2011. Both actors portrayed their respective incarnations in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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Self crit time: I think it was me who had a bad Nietzsche take in the past, on an old account, that you mentioned in a now deleted thread @[email protected]
I’ve read most of what he wrote now, and honestly I love Nietzsche.
That’s fucking sick as hell
What were your prior criticisms and how have they changed after you head him?
Basically that he was not worth reading as he was a reactionary. And not just any reactionary, but like de Gobineau tier nonsense, with nothing of value to say.
His early shit was very anti-semitic (though he came around on that). And it’s not like all his opinions were chill, or anything. But there is a lot of correct and useful analysis in there too. The Black Panthers recommended him for a reason. And he was a beautiful writer. He also got me to get into reading poetry. (Well, him and Heidegger)
Pardon my ignorance as I haven’t read him. I don’t have a negative view of him, I tried reading him years ago and uhh I guess it was a bit difficult and I always figured I would get to it later.
What’s the ‘ubermensch’ supposed to be? I took it as some metaphysical quality but never looked deeper into it.
Pardon my ignorance as I haven’t read him. I don’t have a negative view of him, I tried reading him years ago and uhh I guess it was a bit difficult and I always figured I would get to it later.
What’s the ‘ubermensch’ supposed to be? I took it as some metaphysical quality but never looked deeper into it.
Also FWIW I didn’t want to bag on you personally. I too had the experience of being humbled by reading a text that I had dismissed out of hand. For me it was Freud. I didn’t become a Freudian or anything but I came away with a nuanced understanding of his work and his intellectual contributions. The downside is that now I get annoyed when I see people saying like “DAE Freud was a cocaine-addled maniac whose collected works should be shot into the sun?? 😂😂😂”
No worries, I didn’t feel called out or anything, just thought it was funny really.
I still gotta read some Freud, he’s on the list. I need all the help I can get trying to read Deleuze.