«A pesar del miedo y la compasión... ». El valor de la katharsis en El nacimiento de la tragedia

Maria João Mayer Branco

doi:10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi17.10843

Authors

Maria João Mayer Branco Universidad Nueva de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi17.10843

Keywords:

katharsis, tragedy, Aristotle

Abstract

The paper focus on the role of the concept of katharsis in The Birth of Tragedy. After briefly describing the interpretative context of the Greek term inherited by Nietzsche and clarifying his position towards this same context, it claims, first, that Nietzsche does not understand katharsis as the suppression of the affects of fear and pity; secondly, that these affects are at the core of the effect of tragedy such as Nietzsche understood it. In order to present these claims, the paper re-examines Bernays’ interpretation of Aristotle’s understanding of katharsis and elucidates its influence upon the «purely aesthetic» interpretation of the effects of tragedy that Nietzsche puts forward on his first published work.

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Author Biography

Maria João Mayer Branco, Universidad Nueva de Lisboa

Doctora en Filosofía de la Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Miembro del ’Instituto de Filosofía da Nova (Lisboa). Enseña en los departamentos de Filosofía y Estudios Artísticos de la Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da
Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Ha coeditado: Nietzsche On Instinct and Language (Walter de Gruyter, 2011), As the Spider Spins. Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language (Walter de Gruyter, 2012), Sujeito, décadence e arte. Nietzsche e a modernidade (Tinta-da-China, 2014) et Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity (Walter de Gruyter, 2015). Pertenece a distintos comités científicos internacionales.

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