The statute of truth and the problem of its communication in 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by F. Nietzsche

• Grant number: 13/22743-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2014
• End date: March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Scarlett Zerbetto Marton
• Grantee: Stefano Busellato
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' is the best known of Nietzsche's works, being also the one presenting highest difficulties of interpretation. This project aims to face the analysis of the text, not considering its poetic and artistic nature, from a theoretical point of view, less rich than other ones, and that would constitute an exception respect to the remaining Nietzschean production, going out the borders of a purely philosophical tradition, but as a work that was born from precise concepts and internal requirements on the path of the philosopher, from peculiar affirmative philosophemes and the speculation about the modality of communication of these results.The research will be divided into three main points: 1) an immanent analysis of the work, in order to study the judgments and interpretive indications that the author gave about his own work, and to identify the peculiar results he desired to achieve or he considered achieved through this text 2) a genetic-philological analysis of the text that reconstructs the articulated stages of the work composition, in order to highlight the reasons for the choices that led to the ultimate version, and to find its close philosophical and thematic ties with other works, being chronologically near to Zarathustra; 3) an interpretive proposal that would bound the specificities of the work with the traditional model of the Platonic use of the myth. It will see in the specific nature of the positive philosophemes to communicate, far from the field of logical demonstration, the theoretical need to adopt the peculiar language of Zarathustra, which shows, despite the obvious chronological differences, clear Greek roots. (AU)