The nausea of philology. F. Nietzsche and J.J. Bachofen: a brief friendship

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https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi19.11831

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philology, intuitive-speculative method, myth, symbol

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At the University of Basel Nietzsche met Bachofen, a scholar who had been cut off from academic circles. Bachofen disagreed with the Critical-Rationalist School from Berlin and proposed his own intuitive-speculative method. Drawing upon Bachofen’s method, Nietzsche could reach a more mature relationship with Philology which included the need of an interdisciplinary approach, the choice of intuition and instinct as essential elements to study Ancient Greece, and the rejection of mere erudition. Nietzsche’s aim was to study Ancient Greece in a different way, to get a better understanding of Modernity, and to rescue Philology from the dominant Critical-Rationalist School.

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  • Montserrat Armas, University of La Laguna

    Doctora en Filosofía por la Universidad de La Laguna. Ha publicado en diversas revistas de Filosofía. Traducciones, entre otras, El mundo como voluntad y representación (Akal, 2005) de Arthur Schopenhauer y En mitad de la vida. Poesía completa (Ígitur, 2007) de Hermann Broch. Actualmente mi interés por el Expresionismo alemán me ha llevado a traducir al poeta Georg Heym para diversas revistas mexicanas como Crítica y La Colmena, para la revista peruana Vallejo & Co y para las revistas españolas El Alambique y Fogal. Mi traducción del poemario El día eterno de Georg Heym aparecerá próximamente en la editorial Trotta.

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The nausea of philology. F. Nietzsche and J.J. Bachofen: a brief friendship. (2021). Estudios Nietzsche, 19, 139-156. https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi19.11831