Dos historias de la crueldad. Epílogo al tratado segundo de La genealogía de la moral de F. Nietzsche
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1575-6866
Year of publication: 2022
Issue: 55
Pages: 25-36
Type: Article
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Abstract
This article presents an analysis of the second treatise in On the Genealogy of Morality,identifying two different approaches to the problem of cruelty. On the one hand, the treatise offersa transformational and affirmative perspective of suffering, and on the other, a reactive mode ofconfronting pain that leads to resentment toward life. These two points of view are expressed as twohistorical tales based on different references to Nietzsche’s works while paying close consideration toDeleuze’s reading. This analysis illustrates the process that made it possible for ideals hostile to lifeto triumph and the horizon of redemption that the German thinker unveils through his “great health”concept. The article concludes by sketching an outline of how these two ways of understanding crueltyand their anthropological foundations are present in contemporary political theory.
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