Nietzsche with Spinoza: aesthetic of immanence and the power of the artistic philosophy

Abstract

At first sight, it may seems that Baruch Spinoza’s works have little to do with a Nietzsche’s approach: we are facing an author who is totally focused on Theology, whose great ontological thesis puts forward a sole substance that consists of countless attributes, which ties into one identity both God and Nature. This is marking him as a pantheistic and monadic author. However, it is possible to find among them a large number of resemblances, not only on their metaphysic conception but also on their ethic approaches, which turn into the aesthetic ones for Nietzsche because of the art re-conceptualization done by this thinker. We might run the risk and propose that Spinoza represents the closest precedent to Nietzsche’s thinking.