Staging Life: Three moments of the dramatic metaphor in Nietzsche

• Grant number: 24/20389-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: February 20, 2025
• End date: February 19, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior
• Grantee: Pedro Nagem de Souza
• Supervisor: Andreas Urs Sommer
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Freiburg, Germany
• Associated to the scholarship: 22/00707-6 - Untimely mimesis: philosophical expression in the young Nietzsche, BP.DR

Abstract

This project aims to analyze three moments in Nietzsche's work in which the author uses a certain dramatic metaphor to understand the connections between concepts such as essence and appearance, activity and passivity, creation and contemplation, philosophical taste, etc. The background of these articulations, which is also the general theme of the main research in which this project is inserted, is Nietzsche's understanding of mimesis, with its changes and evolutions throughout the philosopher's thought. I will be focusing in three moments of Nietzsche's works that reference the dramatic metaphor more directly: the first, in Wagner in Bayreuth, in which Nietzsche outlines the figure of a dithyrambic dramatist; the second, in §221 of Human, All Too Human, in which a certain classicizing ideal of art is revived; and the third, in §301 of Gay Science, in which the figure of the thinking-sensing ones is conceived in parallel to the authorial/dramaturgical activity.Analyzing the conceptual shifts and continuities between these three moments, the project also proposes a comparison with the posthumous fragments of these periods, locating Nietzsche's sources and alternative formulations of these philosophical problems.