NIETZSCHE AFTER MAY 1968

From the philosophical legacy of May 1968, the paper focuses on the debate on contemporary individualism using Nietzsche's thought as the guiding thread. This thread is present in both the anti-Nietzschean approach proposed by Ferry and Renaut and the left-wing Nietzscheanism defended by Onfray, and can also be traced in the neo-Nihilist approaches of Glucksmann and Lipovetsky. The pretext for this is a quote from Thus Spoke Zarathustra which appeared among the graffiti covering Parisian walls at the time: 'One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.' An analysis of the two metaphors - 'chaos in oneself ' and 'dancing star' - lending meaning to the phrase and the quest for its reflection in the events of May 1968 make it possible to identify the positions of the aforementioned authors and to consider the moral capacity granted to the individual.