Nietzsche and the politics of the body

Abstract

The objective of this paper is, on the one hand, to bring to light the Nietzschean characterization of the body, removing its “naturalness” and objectivity, launching it into the historical becoming of moral (evaluative) disputes, as well as deconstructing its individual unity by bringing the social webs that produce it from the organization of an original multiplicity that, however, continue to stalk the supposed unity consolidated in the “individual” are brought to the surface. Secondly, we would like to draw attention to its political nature, in the sense that this process of organization or unification of that multiplicity does not occur spontaneously, but is governed by disputes, conflicts, impositions, resistance, negotiations, agreements, conspiracies – in short, all sorts of possible articulations that can both give the consistency of these organizations and can put them in checkmate, providing the logic for their future.