NIETZSCHE STUDIES is an international journal published by Universidad de Málaga y the Edita: Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre Friedrich Nietzsche (SEDEN), whose main aim is to become a basic resource for the latest research in the studies on the thought and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, including the recent bibliographic and news. The journal is published annually. It is indexed in the following databases: European Reference Index for the Humanities (INT2); MIAR; Dialnet metricas (C4); The Philosopher's Index, Répertoire Bibliographique de la Philsoophie; Bulletin Signalétique Philosophie; FRANCIS-Philosophie; Informationsdienst für Philosophie; Ulrich International Periodicals Directory; Latindex; ISOC-Philosophy; Spanish Humanities Index; International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers; Dialnet; REDIB; Dulcinea; Sherpa-Romeo; DOAJ
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Nihilism and Will to Power in Dostoievsky
In this work we propose a reading of Dostoevsky's novel The Player. In contrast to those who consider that this short novel is a minor work or that it has a humorous character, it will be argued that it should be read from the Nietzschean concepts of "nihilism" and "will to power", since in it the Russian author explores the problem of the radical disorientation of human existence after the loss of the horizon of transcendence based on faith in God and presents a cynical and nihilistic character who seeks to find the meaning of his existence in the ecstasy that roulette and gambling produce.
Copyright (c) 2025 Miguel Gonzalez Vallejos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
“Persuade the body first”. Creative discipline as a method of Transfiguration of the Sensible in Nietzsche.
ABSTRACT: Nietzsche’s work is full of Dionysian masks that experiment and inaugurate new senses able to accelerate the process of transvaluation from the heart of active nihilism. This work emphasizes the importance of the expansive movements of the carnivalesque figures of the Dionysian circle: images of exuberant life which, with their transfiguring force, raise awareness of the need to strengthen corporality and unfold the details of the creative discipline proposed by the philosopher to enliven the active forces in those wills to power determined to not succumb to the great weariness and fear instilled by the different reactive instances. Keywords: active nihilism – masks – movement – corporality
Copyright (c) 2025 Marta González Ortegón https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Starting from some statements from Nietzsche's early and late periods in which the split nature of art and truth and his early awareness of it are manifested, we delve into this problematic relationship and develop the approach and analysis that Heidegger made of it in his lessons from the 1930s in order to try to understand it better.
Copyright (c) 2025 Sergio González Bisbal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
History, philosophy, life. Historicity and temporality in Nietzsche and Heidegger
The work explores possible sources of the Heideggerian notion of temporality in Nietzsche's early work, particularly in his concept of historicity. This statement is articulated with the problem raised by Heidegger in his 1923 lectures, where he understands historical consciousness and philosophical consciousness as determinants of what has already been interpreted: schematizing and paralyzing ways of understanding - and of existing. It is proposed that hermeneutical philosophy would respond to the need to “be awake for facticity”, in a way analogous to Nietzsche's call to live philosophically. Underlying the character of both positions is the criticism of the modern-contemporary treatment of time.
Copyright (c) 2025 Oscar Javier Jiménez Piraján https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
We aim to conjugate an experimental hermeneutic of ugliness from Nietzsche’s philosophy as a countercultural power capable of reversing, from aesthetic values, the ethical ones. The opening to the monstrous supposes a certain physiological atonement provoked for playing the ugly with the dark and forbidden in the same way as the Dionysian does. We will briefly review the history of the ugliness and how it has been assumed in philosophy; we will stop, in particular, to analyse how much -and if- Nietzsche appreciated it; we will compare this result with what has been understood by counterculture and we will defend the transvaluing power that such an interpretation harbours
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Neither mental nor material: The hypothesis of the will to power as a deconstructive exercise
Paragraph 36 of Beyond Good and Evil has been, and continues to be, the subject of controversy. Many interpreters disavow its line of argument as incompatible with other key passages in Nietzsche's work and propose to conceive it either as a philosophical attempt that Nietzsche soon abandons, or as a self-conscious myth or an exoteric fable of no proper theoretical value. This article attempts to respond to these assessments by proposing an alternative reading of this paragraph, rehabilitating it, and understanding it as a deconstructive exercise of the opposition between mind and matter.
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Nietzsche and Hermeneutics: Nihilism, Perspectivism and the Contemplative Life.
The aim of this paper is to analyse the close relationship between Nietzsche and hermeneutics. Through the concepts of consummate nihilism and perspectivism, Nietzsche redefines metaphysics as hermeneutics based on the interpretation of metaphors and the negation of absolute truths. A distinction is made between two hermeneutical approaches: open hermeneutics, which promotes freedom and creativity in interpretation, and finalism, which is more conservative and oriented towards shared truths, but useful for social evolution. The text concludes that both positions, although divergent, are essential for cultural transformation, combining critical innovation and structural pragmatism in a necessary balance for human progress.
Copyright (c) 2026 Astor García, David Martín Plaza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Incipit tragoedia: an alternative power for current times
Through the Nietzschean notion of power -not exempt from interpretation and polemic - it is possible to find the foundations on which power, in its metaphysically sense, is based, which allows us to critically analyze the impact it has had throughout history. However, Nietzsche's philosophy of power also provides keys to raise the possibility of another power. The following article will analyze a possible postmetaphysical power not based on domination, but on tragic affirmation, which makes possible transformations in our way of action and relation within the world.
Copyright (c) 2025 Paula A. Serrano https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
SÁNCHEZ MECA, D., Cultura europea y estilos de vida. Singladuras nietzscheanas. Madrid: Tecnos, 2024. ISBN: 9788430990160
CANO CUENCA, Germán y QUEJIDO ALONSO, Óscar (eds.), Crepúsculo de los ídolos de Nietzsche. Una declaración de guerra, Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2024, 378 pp., ISBN: 978-84-127784-2-7.
Recensión del libro: Crepúsculo de los ídolos de Nietzsche. Una declaración de guerra
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«A sea of forces flowing and rushing together». The gravitational dynamics of life
The paper explores the concept of life in Nietzsche's philosophy and its relationship with the notion of the "will to power." By examining the will to power as an ontological and cosmological principle that captures the intrinsic dynamics of the world, the paper draws a comparison with the theory of "loop quantum gravity" developed by scientists such as Carlo Rovelli. It will be argued that certain parallels between Nietzsche's and Rovelli's views can be identified, shedding light on aspects of the will to power that may be important for a deeper understanding of the Nietzschean concept.
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Artistic Power and the Will to Power as Art
Nietzsche’s teachings on power are often confined to his conception of the will to power, which has been narrowly interpreted as political power, ‘political’ understood in the limited sense of state ruling. Two things must be noted here: first, Nietzsche’s philosophy of power exceeds the will to power, regardless of the fact that this concept played a significant role in Nietzsche’s late writings. In this paper, I plan to show its broader context, including the feeling of power, affect, and other related notions. Second, the first time Nietzsche coins the term, the “will to power,” the first occurrence appears in his Nachlass, it is used within the context of artistic power, as he discusses Wagner and the power of music. While examining power in its broadest significance, I will focus on the power of creativity, that is, artistic power, and how that plays a crucial role in Nietzsche’s works from the beginning to the end, without dismissing other forms of power, or will to power.
FÖRSTER-NIETZSCHE, ELISABETH, Friedrich Nietzsche y las mujeres de su tiempo, edición, traducción, notas y anexo Luis Enrique de Santiago Guervós; prólogo, Paulina Rivero, México: UNAM, 2025. ISBN 978-607-587-832-4
Reseña de la obra FÖRSTER-NIETZSCHE, ELISABETH, Friedrich Nietzsche y las mujeres de su tiempo, edición, traducción, notas y anexo Luis Enrique de Santiago Guervós; prólogo, Paulina Rivero, México: UNAM, 2025. ISBN 978-607-587-832-4
MARTIN, NICHOLAS; LARGE, DUNCAN (Eds.), Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”. Berlín / Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021, 444 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-024654-4.
Reseña de MARTIN, NICHOLAS; LARGE, DUNCAN (Eds.), Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”. Berlín / Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2021, 444 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-024654-4.
RUSSELL RE MANNING AND CARLOTTA SANTINI (eds.). Nietzsche's Gods. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2022, col. Nietzsche Today, vol. 6, 310 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-061026-0.
Reseña RUSSELL RE MANNING AND CARLOTTA SANTINI (eds.). Nietzsche's Gods. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2022, col. Nietzsche Today, vol. 6, 310 pp. ISBN: 978-3-11-061026-0.
SÁNCHEZ SERGIO, Los Grandes hombres como calamidad pública. Carlyle en Nietzsche, Córdoba (Argentina): Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2024, 108 pp. ISBN: 978-987-707-328-7
Reseña SÁNCHEZ SERGIO, Los Grandes hombres como calamidad pública. Carlyle en Nietzsche, Córdoba (Argentina): Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2024, 108 pp. ISBN: 978-987-707-328-7
WAGNER, RICHARD Y FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Correspondencia, edición, traducción, notas y anexo, Luis Enrique De Santiago Guervós; prólogo: Miguel Ángel González Barrio, Madrid: Fórcola, 2025, ISBN: 978-84-19969-17-0.
Reseña WAGNER, RICHARD Y FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Correspondencia, edición, traducción, notas y anexo, Luis Enrique De Santiago Guervós; prólogo: Miguel Ángel González Barrio, Madrid: Fórcola, 2025, ISBN: 978-84-19969-17-0.
The first images of women in Nietzsche's philosophy
This article constitutes an analysis of the first references to women in Nietzsche's work, in the writings produced in the so-called first phase of Nietzsche's philosophy, between 1869 and 1876, more specifically, in the posthumous fragments between the years 1869 and 1874, seeking to build a structured interpretation of these posthumous fragments, demonstrating that the theme of women and reflections on the feminine have always had a relevant place in Nietzsche's critique of culture.
The different types of affirmations that Nietzsche makes in his work about women have been understood and criticized from different points of view, attending not infrequently to the prevailing social assessment in each place and in each time, but this judgment of the spirit of the times, while very interesting and pertinent, is not really in keeping with the nature of Nietzsche's own work. We propose a reading of what women mean in and from Nietzsche's work, taking into account his own psychology, what it means to deal with the «inner woman» in the philosopher, mainly through some texts that speak about the woman extracted from Thus Spoke Zarathustra -especially from the end of its third part-, resorting to the study of Nietzsche's masterpiece by C. G. Jung, as well as his concept of the anima. Nietzsche's relationship with the inner woman opens a new way to understand the meaning of the philosopher's work.
That Pregnant and Fatal Will to Power: An Approach to the issue of «Women» in Nietzschean Work
This paper seeks to analyze those aspects in which certain Nietzschean fascination with the feminine can be observed, without thereby closing the discussion about the misogynist elements that inhabit the corpus of his philosophy. For this, I am going to delve into the claim and affirmation of the feminine as a fundamental conceptual key to interpret the thesis on life and the will to power. The aim will be to show that the woman affirmed by Nietzsche identifies with the figure of the pregnant woman, who is capable of creating beyond herself and, therefore, is also capable of perishing.
Women who write books are dangerous. Nietzsche and women’s emancipation
Examining the positions that Nietzsche assumes in relation to French women writers and especially to George Sand, Madame de Staël and Madame Roland, will be the starting point of our investigation. From the analysis of Nietzsche's texts on this subject, we count, at first, to clarify the assumptions from which he starts. We then want to show that, far from occupying a marginal place in his work, being occasional digressions or being limited to personal preferences, his considerations about women writers are intimately linked to his philosophical project.
Rapture and drunkenness: the feeling of fullness.
Abstract: Teresa of Avila presents the mystical rapture, the supreme expression of ecstasy, as the absence of the exterior senses, and, with it, of all disturbance. This spiritual experience results from a clairvoyant truth, acquired beyond the understanding as a unique and singular moment. Therefore, it is the experience that takes place in an instant of fullness, in an instant that is, at the same time, full and empty. On the paths of the experience of fullness, Nietzsche expresses it as intoxications, as that moment of culmination, of instinctual increase. However, while it consists of an experience of a maximum increase of instincts, it reveals itself as an absence, like nothing, with no goal to reach. In this sense, both in the mystical rapture and the Dionysian intoxication there is a feeling of fullness that is expressed, at the same time that it gains fulfillment, an increase as well as loss, absence, and emptiness. So, to what extent is it possible to observe, in addition to distances to rapture and drunkenness, also overlaps and even identities? Is the experience of fullness something common around Teresa of Avila’s rapture and Nietzsche’s drunkenness?
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Nietzsche confronts the free woman: The enigmas of the (dis)encounter with Lou von Salomé
This article aims to explore the main aspects of Friedrich Nietzsche's (dis) encounter with Lou von Salomé. Although the relationship between these two intellectuals takes place in just a few months in 1882, the influence that each of them exerted on the life of the other, as well as the first-hand information that Lou can provide about Nietzsche, make this encounter essential to understand the philosopher's thoughts from his most human side. Through the analysis of the similarities and differences between these two personalities, a thought they both share is fulfilled: to study simultaneously an author and their work.
Copyright (c) 2023 Laura Rodríguez Frías
Truth as a linguistic construction: interpretative structure and hierarchical arrangement of reality.
Nietzschean thought is articulated through a profound critique of language and its relationship with truth, exploring how the "will to power" and the creation of metaphors form the foundation of human interpretations of reality. For Nietzsche, language is not merely a reflection of objective truth but a tool through which individuals organize and dominate the world. Throughout his work, Nietzsche examines how truth becomes a linguistic construction subject to power dynamics and how the necessity for interpretive illusion forms the core of his philosophy. This perspective reveals the impossibility of accessing a pure reality, as language distorts the world and distances it from truth. In this context, Nietzsche advocates for a break with classical metaphysical conventions and opens the possibility for a more creative and artistic post-metaphysics.
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In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in the cross-reading of the work of Nietzsche and Foucault around the common topics of the aesthetics of existence, parrhesia and self-care, which are structured through their respective approaches to the Greco-Roman world. This new connection between the two authors allows the development of certain intuitions that define their genealogical analyses of our culture, but which had not captured the attention of specialists. In this paper, we do not try to provide an exhaustive description of all these controversial issues, but to clarify them by examining a specific aspect related to this type of approach to the work of Nietzsche and Foucault: the treatment that both authors offer of the figure of Plato in relation to questions such as the philosophical life, the will to truth, or the ethics of self-care. Thus, revisiting the lessons given by the young Nietzsche in Basel and the courses and writings of the late Foucault allows us to make his reconstruction of Platonism more complex, going beyond the cliché that identifies Plato as the founder of metaphysics.
Copyright (c) 2023 Manuel Barrios, Emmanuel Chamorro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Nietzsche Friend of Plato? The Courage Facing the Truth.
Nietzsche concedes being a friend of Plato. But this friendship does not prevent him from reproaching his cowardice for having fled to the «true world». Plato thus places the truth in a field far from life, favoring the emergence of a dogmatic conception. The criticism of this conception shows that Nietzsche is more friend of the truth than of Plato. The article analyzes the Nietzschean conception of truth, characterized by its interpretive and perspectivist condition. The new friends of truth thus considered will be the philosophers of the future.
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Nietzsche’s Plato, between symbol and caricature.
Nietzsche repeatedly deals with Plato’s manifold and ambiguous personality, his writings, the history of the impact of his thought. Since the Basel lectures, Plato the symbol is used according to a threefold register: monumental, antiquarian, critical. The controversy with Platonism is constant; however, the challenged image of moralist Plato is defined as a “caricature” which is similar to Augustine’s and Schopenhauer’s readings, defined as belittling and redundant in some passages. Interpretations not influenced by metaphysical-moral dualism are considered, with the emergence, beyond the uninterrupted fight “with” Plato, of a more sporadic but intriguing fight “on” Plato.
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