O espírito cômico no pensamento de Nietzsche

Abstract

The present paper intends to offer an interpretation of the philosophy of Nietzsche, highlighting the role of the spirit of the comedian in the elaboration of his criticism of culture. It explores the critics on the socratic-platonic way of thinking, the basis of all of western thought which invaded different spheres of human life such as art, science and philosophy. Such hegemony represents, for Nietzsche, a process of civilization decay, since such thought, far from emerging from a free dionisiac  inventivity, is born of the need for security.Therefore we inherited a way of thinking that privileges what is stabel and ideal, disguising the transient and sensitive aspects of human life. In this context, the experience of the comediant and of the satyr must be rescued. In order to access such experience, however, we need to go beyond the herd moral tought by tradition, unmasking it and giving birth to a free spirit genealogic way of thinking which, facing life as a constant ficcional process, loves it unconditionaly.  The pretension of finding “truth”, together with the austere attitude that follows, is then abandoned, opening space to the attitude of the satyr which, transpassed by the spirit of comedy and dance, creates fictions that are useful to life.