Abstract

DIAZ-STERLING, Carlos Felipe. The Guiding Thread of the Body as Methodology to a Self-knowledge in Nietzsche's Philosophy. Eidos [online]. 2023, n.39, pp.102-124.  Epub Apr 19, 2023. ISSN 1692-8857.

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 Analyzing part of Nietzsche's work after 1885 -published and unpublished- shows that the idea of the Body works as a methodology that allows Nietzsche to accomplish a new task of his philosophy, such as the task of self-knowledge.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.

Keywords : Body; drives; knowledge; methodology; nature; ontology; subjectivity.

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