Nietzsche and the critique of “feminine scientificity”

Abstract

The theme about the feminine, in Nietzsche, yields many controversies and varied interpretations, often on the same section studied. What we will try to present in this article is that Nietzsche's criticism of female emancipation is linked to his philosophical project that criticizes philosophers' dogmatism and their search for “truth” and also the idea of equality. In the parts in which we will discuss in this work, we will point out the relations referring to the feminine and the philosophical tradition of the theoretical man from Socrates to modernity. We will present the beginning of the decline from the Socratic culture, we will go through the criticism of language and then the aphorism itself that we will approach about the feminine. What we identify, in Nietzsche's words, as “female scientificity” is precisely a movement where this type (scientific woman) wants to follow in the footsteps of the theoretical man, which Nietzsche will harshly criticize and attribute to him the beginning of the decline of culture. How can one speak of “emancipation”, since what is sought, in fact, is an equalization to the culture of decadence? It is in this controversial context that we will present our hypotheses about the topic.