Abstract: Nietzsche, although he defined his philosophy as an inversion of Platonism, frequently used its terms, which might lead us to identify an aristocratic idealism in his thought. But Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a high-flying aristocrat and a reader of Nietzsche, later developed a poetics of nobility which constituted a paradoxical and little-known continuation of his predecessor’s work, in which he found himself making an abyss from height, and something base from something great.
