Solidão e espírito livre na 3.ª Consideração Extemporânea

Abstract

The brief study that follows is an attempt to understand the experience of loneliness as it gives its first signs in Friedrich Nietzsche’s 3rd Extemporaneous Consideration, trying to delineate it, not as a simple concept, but in close connection with another nietzschean conceptual figure, the free spirit, as regards his becoming himself. As a critical category, the free spirit (though not formally appearing in this Nietzsche writing as it will be in Human, too Human) is confronted all the time with the powerful injunctions of culture, which insist on swallowing it in a way of a uniforming, leveling and paralyzing gregarious life, removing all possibility of any loneliness and, consequently, the freedom to create oneself that the idea of becoming, of becoming implies.