Poets and truthful men in the face of nihilism: Der Dichter als Betrüger – The Poet as Liar

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https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.062.DS07

Abstract

The present article starts from the widespread opinion that poets are liars to analyze Nietzsche's paradoxical position regarding the critique of the will to truth: on the one hand, his denunciation of the falsity embedded in the most sublime epistemological and moral ideals of our tradition; on the other hand, the reconstitution of the genesis of intellectual probity inherent in modern scientific consciousness as a sublimated translation of Christian truthfulness. In conclusion, in a tension between Nietzsche and Goethe, he interprets the teaching of the eternal return as a true poetic recreation of the world, which redeems it from chance and the brutality of facts, and makes it possible to overcome nihilism.

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Author Biography

Maria Crisrina Fornari, Università del Salento. Campus de Lecce

Professora Associada de História da Filosofia do Departamento de Estudos Humanísticos da Università del Salento. Campus de Lecce. Doutora em Disciplinas Histórico-Filosóficas.

Published

2022-08-22

How to Cite

Crisrina Fornari, M. (2022). Poets and truthful men in the face of nihilism: Der Dichter als Betrüger – The Poet as Liar. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 34(62). https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.062.DS07