El recurso a Heráclito en la obra de Friedrich Nietzsche

Abstract

After checking in preliminary investigations, related to my Master Thesis, the absence of a full and orderly critical study on the use of Heraclitus in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, we realized the need to develop a thorough investigation on the matter. This PhD thesis serves this need and contributes in the field of Nietzschean studies with a critical work that is presented and analysed according to the chronological order in which all the passages of the works and texts, for the lessons and lectures given by the author, containing allusions to Heraclitus, were written. Each of these passages has been contextualized and commented on in detail, reviewing related bibliographic sources and contrasting it with the most relevant contributions of the interpretive tradition, both for the Nietzschean studies and for those of Heraclitus, and then providing our own considerations on the meaning of the resource in each case. The comments of the various passages are complemented by the analysis of the allusions to Heraclitus contained in notes and posthumous fragments. In a document attached to the doctoral thesis I present a complete and chronologically ranked list of all the citations, thus facilitating a quick reference of the passages in question, as well as an overview of the processing of citations throughout the work of the author, along with the possibility to compare directly the allusions made in the annotations of the posthumous, and in the works and other texts, in a same chronological period. This research offers a full, systematic and chronologically ordered study on the reference to Heraclitus in all the work of the author, with precise indications on interest, meaning, and context of each one of the citations, allowing to show the real scope of the question from the evidence of the texts, in contrast with the frequent tendency to use citations in an isolated and superficial manner, or even subject to certain interpretive interests. I am also attaching an annex that addresses some issues arising from my exploration, which tend to create confusion, and to which a somewhat more detailed attention has been paid, helping to improve its understanding.