Manuel Barrios Casares

Niilismo e pós-humanidade na cultura contemporânea (Nietzsche contra Sloterdijk)

This article presents the influences of Nietzsche on the 20th century, so much on the artistic vanguards as on the philosophical ones, from Heidegger and Sloterdijk, these one in the context of an humanism crisis. Thus, it intends to show that its possible to find a resistance against Nietzschean philosophy to the post-humanist humanism proclaimed by Sloterdijk. Indeed, contemporary technology would not be the place par excellence to stamp out the habits of a calculating thinking, which, in its turn, in an attempt to return in safety from an usual place, generates romantics and conservatives attitudes. Instead of this, contemporary art furnishes more interesting suggestions about human edges and residues that cannot be assimilated, and this comes in the wake of the footsteps of the Nietzschean reply to the ancient metaphysical claim that the logos (now the technologos) nullify the wild and damned part of our human animality.