Nietzsche and History The Unhappiness of the Animal and the Hope of Man

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 entail...

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Published in:Ideas y valores 2014-12, Vol.63 (156), p.191-205
Main Authors: Tuillang Yuing, Mariela Cecilia Avila
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
Subjects:
F. Nietzsche
G. Agamben
happiness
history
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0120-0062
0120-0062
DOI:10.15446/ideasyvalores.v63n156.39481