LITERARY PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES OF LITERATURE IN NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

The aim of this work is to show certain threads of Nietzschean philosophy in the context of performance and performance studies, understood here as various actions of mostly artistic provenance (performance) complemented by theoretical analysis (performance studies). The crossing point between Nietzsche’s philosophical legacy and the performative content will consist of certain literary strategies performed and documented by the German thinker himself, commented by researchers of his philosophy, and later in similar forms by performance studies as well as by standpoints of psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, or phenomenology. I try to show that it is possible to interpret the author of Thus spoke Zarathustra as a performer and performance studier – a thinker who treated philosophy as an artistic experience, namely as various forms of writing, but also as writing about writing, a more theoretical attitude.

Keywords

• hermeneutics
• literature
• performance
• performance studies
• phenomenology
• psychoanalysis