Workshop: Nietzsche, life as an essay for liberation

The popularity and relevance of Nietzsche is understood because Nietzsche philosophized from life and for life: his own, that of his contemporaries and ours. We are shaken by his aphoristic style, as well as his lapidary and celebratory phrases that kill and then give life.

Like no one else, Nietzsche had a critical and luminous way of reading culture, through which we read ourselves. If we know how to use the method that he left us, it illuminates the relationship between our personal dramas and the dramas of a modernity without great truths. Based on knowledge of his fundamental texts, this Workshop aims to open the toolbox of the German philosopher, aspiring for each person to create a Nietzsche tailored to their needs, to rehearse a personal and liberating form of lucidity.

Martín Hopenhayn is a philosopher and essayist, member of the UDP Center for the Humanities and professor at the School of Sociology of the same university, former director of the Social Development Division of ECLAC, and author, among other books, of After Nihilism: from Nietzsche to Foucault (1997 and 2005); and Critique of Ironic Reason: From Sade to Jim Morrison (2002).

Program broken down by sessions:

1. Philosophy and life: from the Nietzsche case to Nietzsche's contribution.
2. Life as an essay for liberation: the fable of the three metamorphoses of the spirit in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Why does freedom imply innocence? A not very enlightened model of conquering inner freedom.
3. Living in helplessness: the many deaths in the death of God: how the exercise of truth leads to the annihilation of all truth.
4. Nietzschean nihilism and 21st century nihilisms.
5. The genealogy of morality and the deconstruction of reason as a new form of critical consciousness: the Nietzsche of Foucault and Vattimo. (unmasking, interpretation, affiliation, deconstruction).
6. Nietzschean ontology: being as becoming and eternal return. Secularization or a different form of sacralization?
7. Models to experience: Apollo, Dionysus, old and new metaphors of singularity and dissolution. Perspectivism and health: the look, the body.
8. Models to reinvent oneself: the tragic artist, the untimely, the free spirit.