The Anti-Logic of the Sacred Lie: Abir Taha’s Fascist Metaphysics and the Legacy of Nietzschean Critique

This paper examines The Epic of Arya, a work by Aryan supremacist, Sorbonne-trained philosopher, and esoteric Nietzschean ideologue Abir Taha, as a case study in the fascist appropriation of continental philosophy’s critique of logic and metaphysics. Drawing on her idiosyncratic reading of Nietzsche, Taha advances a mythic vision of eternal sacred Truth underpinning Aryan identity, paradoxically invoking Nietzschean themes of becoming while reinstating the very metaphysical fixity Nietzsche resists. Situating The Epic of Arya alongside scholarly accounts of Nietzsche’s rejection of logic and metaphysics, and broader concerns about the co-option of post-structuralist thought by reactionary movements, this paper argues that Taha’s work exemplifies how anti-rationalist philosophical currents can be weaponized to support discourses of hierarchy, discrimination, and exclusion. By extension, it contributes to ongoing academic dialogue about whether continental philosophy’s critique of logic inadvertently creates conceptual space for the resurgence of authoritarian political theologies under the guise of postmodern flux.