Nietzsche, o intempestivo: sobre os excessos da história científica e o não-histórico

Abstract

Nietzsche criticizes the excesses of history, but at the same time he argues that life needs its services. What to say then about something that is harmful to life, i.e., an obstacle to its development, and at the same time the great achievement of the moderns? Should we understand this ambiguity from the excesses of history itself or from its usefulness as non-historical knowledge directed towards life? In order to answer these questions, the present article will investigate the pertinent relationship between the history whose knowledge results from a scientific elaboration and a non-historical history, which may be understood as a non-historiographical history devoid of history’s requirements.