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| Author(s): |
Isadora Raquel Petry
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2023-06-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Oswaldo Giacoia Junior;
Ernani Pinheiro Chaves;
Henry Burnett;
João Constâncio;
Clademir Araldi
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| Advisor: | Oswaldo Giacoia Junior |
| Abstract | |
The problem of "décadence" was, as Nietzsche puts it in The Case of Wagner, that with which he occupied himself most during his philosophical life. We find the term "décadence" is discussed by Nietzsche under the horizon of other fundamental terms in his philosophy, such as the Wille zur Macht [Will to Power] and the Umwerthung aller Werte [Transvaluation of all Values]; but it is only from 1883 on that the philosopher will develop, in direct reference to the literary critic Paul Bourget and certain French writers, a more precise definition of the term "décadence", transforming it into a key concept for the constellation of texts written between 1887 – 1888. In Nietzsche’s books, personal notes [Nachlass] and epistolary material, it is possible to investigate his considerations about "décadence" as a potent diagnosis of modernity and of the modern, identifying in what extension and measure his dialogue with French literature took place. The French poets, novelists and art critics provide Nietzsche with a reading instrument privileged for the diagnostic that the philosopher carries out concerning "décadence", above all between 1887 – 1888, the moment in which he reads the brothers Goncourt’s and Baudelaire’s Journals for the first time. From that moment on, the concept of "nihilism" [Nihilismus] suffers an inflection in the concept of "décadence". Under this perspective, it is possible to verify that décadence constitutes the core of Nietzsche’s late thought, composing the texture of not only his writings on aesthetics, but also on various aspects of modernity. This thesis concerned itself with the concept of "décadence" in Nietzsche’s late philosophy, showing in what measure the philosopher appropriates himself of and twists his readings of Bourget, Baudelaire and the Goncourt brothers, flexing the idea of "décadence" coming from a certain French literature, for the central interest of his late philosophy: the transvaluation of value (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/23514-8 - Décadence-art and modernity: contribuition and reception of 19th century French literature in Nietzsche's philosophy |
| Grantee: | Isadora Raquel Petry |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |