Open AccessNietzsche’s Idiosyncrasy Against Euripides
Author(s) -
Daniel da Silva Toledo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acme
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-0035
pISSN - 0001-494X
DOI - 10.54103/2282-0035/16795
Subject(s) - socrates , poetry , tragedy (event) , character (mathematics) , literature , subordination (linguistics) , philosophy , greek tragedy , reading (process) , ancient greek , object (grammar) , idiosyncrasy , epistemology , linguistics , art , geometry , mathematics , finance , economics
The main purpose of this article is to present a critique of the Nietzschean reading of the evaluative status of Euripides’ poetry within the historical-genealogical process that the philosopher understands as constituting the decline of the Greek tragedy. The negative character – supposedly radicalizing, potentializing and consuming this hypothetical trajectory of decline – of Euripidian poetry will here be imputed to the very theoretical conditioning of the Nietzschean conception of the tragic. To do this, we will explore three fundamental guidelines: (1) the subordination of Nietzsche to a traditional interpretative line; (2) his tendentious disregard for the concrete content of the whole Euripidian work; (3) the unfounded identification between Socrates and Euripides.