Entre a décadence e a rangordnung: anotações sobre a crítica de Nietzsche à modernidade

This article aims to point out some features of Nietzsche’s critique of modernity and to present how he establishes his task against it and his philosophical project from it. In this sense, it should be noted that Nietzsche claims a radical difference between modernity and his own philosophy: while the first is characterized as a form of decadence (décadence), the second postulates some sort of hierarchy (Rangordnung). Such opposition, however, does not prevent Zarathustra’s author to postulate that his philosophical project is rooted in his time and aims to carry out certain purposes and internal contradictions of modernity itself.