Perspectivismo e agonismo: Nietzsche sobre verdade e poder

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Thiago Mota Fontenele e
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/6488
• topic: Knowledge; Language; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 - Crítica e interpretação; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 - Contribuições em filosofia da linguagem; Linguagem e línguas - Filosofia; Teoria do conhecimento

The aim of this text is to explain the relation between truth and power, that is, perspectivism and agonism, in Nietzsche’s thought. Firstly, we rebuild in analytical terms the nietzschean concept of nihilism, which so means anti-foundationalism, anti-realism and anti-correspondentialism in the theoretical field. Thus, nietzschean nihilism is the diagnosis of our time as the moment of crisis of the notions of foundation, truth and world. Nevertheless, Nietzsche is not a bare nihilist, for he proposes an experimental philosophy, within truth is not conceived as discovery but as creation, experiment, perspective, and so as inseparable of power. Afterwards, we elaborate a balance of the discussion on perspectivism and point two central questions: the problem of the reference to becoming and the problem of the self-reference of perspectivism. Facing these problems, we consider the pragmatic interpretation of perspectivism as the one which provides more advantages since it deepens her anti-realism and detranscendentalizes the subjectivity. Furthermore, the pragmatic perspectivism rejects the idea of correspondence in order to propose a perspectival concept of truth which thinks truth as natural, historic and linguistic conditioned plurality of perspectives. Inside this context, a situated within power relations utility, that is, an agonistic utility becomes the criterion of truth. Therefore we present an agonistic perspectivism based in the genealogy of the agón of word, that is, the rhetoric as it was practiced by the sophists during the time of the birth of democracy. Accordingly, we believe that it is not only possible rebuild the nietzschean perspectivism in pragmatic terms, but also contribute with the introduction of the question of power in the discussion on pragmatism. Finally, we assay a agonistic perspectival response to the pointed problems: reducing his ontological commitments to the minimum, sustaining a radically anti-foundationalist, anti-realist and anti-correspondentialist position, the agonistic perspectivism understands that becoming and perspectivism itself as fictions, interpretations, perspectives, what entangles no circularity at all but rather a confirmation of perspectivism.