Nietzsche e a questão do corpo: uma interpretação diagnóstica da cultura e o desafio da grande saúde

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to go through the Nietzsche an line of thought about the process of re-signification of the body, considering the states of weakness, degeneracy and disease of culture and civilization, as well as considering and investigating possible paths to great health, which is not one. In Nietzsche's view, states of illness, as well as states of convalescence, and of the abundance of active forces are processes that produces meaning, are inscribed in history, in the fibers of man, of a people and a culture. His investigative and critical intent turns against the philosophical tradition and hence he says there are differences between those who philosophize with their weaknesses and consolations seeking balm and meekness, and to those who, although affected by different states, philosophize with their riches and strengths. Nietzsche also declined, claimed to have experienced in decay, but also said to be the opposite, because to promote health, to seek it constantly was an exercise of displacement, to put itself beyond the dichotomies of values, analyzing critically under what conditions and circumstances have consolidated idols, truths, moral prejudices that have inscribed in history and memory as a burden. Thus, this investment places the body as the main axis of all philosophical values, whether decadent or not. From this formulation that makes inseparable the relations between the multiple forces that operate in the constitution of the corporal processes, a wider acceptance in the register of the understanding of physiology opens up