NIETZSCHE AND THE INTERPRETATIVE HORIZON OF TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS

Authors

  • Jorge Luiz Viesenteiner Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v17i2.18859

Keywords:

Twilight of the Idols, Will to Power, necessity, genius

Abstract

The article aims to point out some of the interpretive horizons of Twilight of the Idols, especially the status in relation to philological literary project regarding Will to Power and the philosophical status within the texts of 1888. Among others, the central hypothesis that will guide our interpretation is the 'heuristic of necessity': the question about desires and needs that cause or force an artistic, politic, etc. production and, moreover, a hypothesis that is found through the book. Finally, it is also to point out that how Nietzsche operates with a semantic distance in relation to concepts that were previously elaborated by him, for example, the concept of ‘genius'. These assumptions help to fill a gap into the research-Nietzsche, regarding a text that didn’t receive its real significance in Brazil.

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Author Biography

Jorge Luiz Viesenteiner, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná

Doutor em filosofia pela UNICAMP e professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da PUCPR. É membro do GIRN (Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche) pela Universidade de Greifswald/Alemanha. Email: jvies@uol.com.br

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Published

2013-02-27

How to Cite

VIESENTEINER, Jorge Luiz. NIETZSCHE AND THE INTERPRETATIVE HORIZON OF TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 17, n. 2, p. 131–157, 2013. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v17i2.18859. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/18859. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2012): Ethics and Analytical Philosophy

Section

Artigos Originais

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