Truth, incorporation, probity (Redlichkeit) in Nietzsche

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  • Vanessa Lemm University of New South Wales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi15.10787

Keywords:

truth, incorporation, probity (Redlichkeit), politics and Nietzsche

Abstract

In this essay, I intend to show that for Nietzsche the concept of truth that enhances life is truth understood as Redlichkeit (probity). Additionally, I argue that Redlichkeit makes possible a conception of philosophical life that is political through and through and yet stands in critical tension with the conventional conception of truth that lies at the basis of social and political forms of life. The following essay is divided into four
parts: in the first part I present the relation between truth and embodiment in Nietzsche. I then distinguish, in the second part, between philosophical truth and conventional or political truth in order to show, in the third part, that these two conceptions of truth reflect two types of embodiment which represent two different conceptions of political life and of society with others. Whereas political or conventional truth lays the ground for a form of social and political life based on an equalizing domination of the other, philosophical truth produces a form of social and political life characterized by openness to the other. This openness to the other takes the form of an agonistic friendship favouring the (probe) pursuit of (philosophical) truth. I argue that a form of social and political life based on

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Author Biography

  • Vanessa Lemm, University of New South Wales

    Profesora de filosofía en la School of Humanities and Languages de la University of New South Wales y profesora adjunta del Instituto de Humanidades de la Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. Es autora de Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (Nueva York: Fordham
    University Press, 2009) disponible en castellano con Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010 y en alemán con Diaphanes Verlag, 2012; y también de Nietzsche y el pensamiento político contemporáneo (Santiago: Fondo de cultura económica, 2013). Ha publicado un gran número de artículos sobre Nietzsche, biopolítica y teoría política
    contemporánea. Ha editado libros sobre Hegel, Foucault y Nietzsche. Destacan enparticular Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life (Nueva York: Fordham University Press, 2014) y Nietzsche y el devenir de la vida (Santiago de Chile: Fondo de cultura económica, 2014).

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Truth, incorporation, probity (Redlichkeit) in Nietzsche. (2020). Estudios Nietzsche, 15, 63-82. https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi15.10787
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