Nietzsche: propositions about a genealogical and life-affirming history

Abstract

This article is guided by two basic lines of investigation. The first one deals with Nietzsche's critique of classical philology and, alternatively, the creation of a philology of surprises. The second line focuses on Nietzsche's criticism of classical genealogy and English genealogists and, alternatively, on the proposition of what we call — according to our terms — a ‘genealogical and life-affirming history’. Regarding this point, we shall dwell fundamentally on his work On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), since it is our understanding, above everything else, that it holds the keys to the interpretation of his genealogical thought.