The Guiding Thread of the Body as Methodology to a Self-knowledge in Nietzsche’s Philosophy
Keywords:
Body, drives, knowledge, methodology, nature, ontology, subjectivityAbstract
This paper proposes a re-interpretation of the idea of Body in Nietzsche’s philosophy to distinguish it from two important perspectives of Nietzsche-studies in Spanish: The first one maintains that the Body is comparable with Nature, and the second one, states that the Body is a cause of subjectivity. Analyzing part of Nietzsche’s work after 1885 —published and unpublished— shows that the idea of the Body works as a methodology that allows Nietzsche to accomplish a new task of his philosophy, such as the task of self-knowledge. In this way, the Body in Nietzsche’s philosophy, besides being an innovative and redeemable concept, is a performative tool that establishes new dimensions “in-between” human knowing and bodily experimentation.
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