Abstract

YUING ALFARO, TUILLANG  and  AVILA, MARIELA CECILIA. NIETZSCHE AND HISTORY THE UNHAPPINESS OF THE ANIMAL AND THE HOPE OF MAN. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2014, vol.63, n.156, pp.191-205. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v63n156.39481.

The Second Untimely Meditation establishes a functional relation to history: the latter benefits life when it is considered from an illusory, dissimulated, and strategic perspective. The article analyzes two consequences of this: the critique of history as an objective science and the nuances entailed by considering it as a narrative. If G. Agamben has shown how history arises in the interstice between language and discourse, the debate should focus on the process through which subjectivity acquires a language that must be "historicized". This implies exploring the relations between happiness and history as a repository of meaning and hope.

Keywords : G. Agamben; F. Nietzsche; happiness; history.

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