Abstract

SANCHEZ LOPERA, ALEJANDRO. Nietzsche flying over Ibero-America. Hallazgos [online]. 2020, vol.17, n.34, pp.123-155.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/2422409x.5339.

The disagreements of Latin American philosophy with Nietzsche can be understood as a symptom of more than just a problem of readability or misunderstanding. As a thought of the one, Latin American philosophy (majority) cannot use Nietzschean thinking: it is impossible to construct a thinking of origin and unity from a thinking of the multiple, such as Nietzsche’s. The identity, so sought after by that majority Latin American philosophy, is an anti-genealogical anxiety. In this regard, that philosophy and its origin is not only Eurocentric, as has already been exposed by other observers, but reactive, and this is valid for three of its main trends: the normalizing philosophy, the historicist trend and the Latin American philosophy of liberation. Hence, incidentally, the fascination of such thinking with the idea of lack —we have never been civilized enough—. This has established a suffering body in Latin America, trapped in the dialectic of the victim and the victimizer. So it is about thinking with Nietzsche to try to think without resentment from Latin America and about it. Nietzsche in Latin America? Yes, but beyond the studies of reception and influence: Nietzsche as that roar capable of instilling a geological dimension of the thinking.

Keywords : Latin American philosophy; majority philosophy; nihilism; Friedrich Nietzsche; normalization; vitalism.

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