Georges Palante - Philosophy

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A thoroughgoing Individualist, he admired Nietzsche and showed early interest in the work of Freud. His thinking is also critical towards the mass "herd instinct", which he thought oppresses and prevents individuals from developing fully. He did not, however, oppose social networks, and insisted that his philosophy did not seek to destroy society for the benefit of the individual, but to help to build new networks of social interaction. In sociology, he objected to the holistic model espoused by Emile Durkheim.

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