We identify the coordinates at which Ezequiel Martínez Estrada reads Nietzsche between 1944 and 1950. We analyze his interpretation, which assigns the philosopher's entire production to the scope of the aesthetic and metaphysical theses of his work on tragedy. Among the sources that guide his interpretation, we are particularly concerned with Spengler, whose vitalist and irrationalist imprint is decisive. We point out the limits of his idiosyncratic reading, which ignores the turn of Nietzsche's…
Read moreWe identify the coordinates at which Ezequiel Martínez Estrada reads Nietzsche between 1944 and 1950. We analyze his interpretation, which assigns the philosopher's entire production to the scope of the aesthetic and metaphysical theses of his work on tragedy. Among the sources that guide his interpretation, we are particularly concerned with Spengler, whose vitalist and irrationalist imprint is decisive. We point out the limits of his idiosyncratic reading, which ignores the turn of Nietzsche's thought in the late seventies: his renunciation of the authority of myth and the recovery of the value of knowledge.
