Deforming Nietzsche
Ugliness as a countercultural power of transvaluation
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https://doi.org/10.24310/en.25.2025.20903Keywords:
ugliness, power, counterculture, transvaluationAbstract
We aim to conjugate an experimental hermeneutic of ugliness from Nietzsche’s philosophy as a countercultural power capable of reversing, from aesthetic values, the ethical ones. The opening to the monstrous supposes a certain physiological atonement provoked for playing the ugly with the dark and forbidden in the same way as the Dionysian does. We will briefly review the history of the ugliness and how it has been assumed in philosophy; we will stop, in particular, to analyse how much -and if- Nietzsche appreciated it; we will compare this result with what has been understood by counterculture and we will defend the transvaluing power that such an interpretation harbours
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