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SUBIECTUL MODERN LA NIETZSCHE CA „PUZZLE FĂRĂ SOLUŢIE”
The Modern Subject in Nietzsche as a “Puzzle without Solution”

Author(s): Daniel Nica
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: self-creation; identity; subject as multiplicity; drives; unity of the self; becoming;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to examine some features of Nietzsche’s philosophy of the subject, by providing a hermeneutical reconstruction of the critique and formation of the self. My reconstructionwill put a particular focus on the Nietzschean account of the human drives. The modelto guide this investigation is the metaphor of the self as a “puzzle without solution”.According to this image, the self is something like a peculiar game of puzzle, whosepieces were not designed to fit together into a certain image. The pieces of the game arean individual’s drives or instincts, which have to be unified into a coherent whole. Sucha process is the transition from the “subject as multiplicity” to the “free spirit”.

  • Issue Year: LXIII/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 53-64
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian, Moldavian