An Attempt at Self-Criticism, a genealogical perspective on the first work of Nietzsche
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https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi17.10840Keywords:
self-criticism, genealogy, tragedy, medical-philosopherAbstract
In this paper my purpose is to investigate the well known «An attemp at self-criticism», preface or afterword to The birth of tragedy added by Nietzsche sixteen years after the first edition of that inaugural work. I will try to show that the German thinker, on this oportunity, pretends to use himself as material for his «medical philosophers» method, using a clinic or genealogic observation about the deepest motivations envolved
in the genesis of his youth book. From this interpretative proposal, he was trying to detect historical constraits and also political, artistic and cutural influences that incided in such an original and apparently extemporaneous book. In addition, his genealogic flair lids him far beyond: to figure out the personal and hidden impulses that afected this work and to speak on his own health condition together with his vital instincts that pushed him to create a book in which he questions the values, ideals and fundamental concepts of his generation.
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