Berdyaev and Nietzsche.
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This article constitutes the second part of a study devoted to the philosophical dialogue between Nicolas Berdyaev and Friedrich Nietzsche, focused this time on the thought of the former. Marie-Alix de Solages analyzes the way in which Berdyaev takes up and transcends the Nietzschean problematic of creative force, chaos, and the will to power. The author shows that Berdyaev does not reject the Nietzschean quest but radically reorients its meaning: where Nietzsche knows only the logic of opposites, Berdyaev develops a logic of otherness grounded in personal freedom, trinitarian relation, and divine-human union. The theological contribution of the article lies in the articulation between personalist anthropology, Christology, and pneumatology: Christ, presented as the true Dionysus, reconciles freedom, creation, and redemption, offering a response to modernity that sacrifices neither power nor the person.
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