Waking up from the dream or repeating the nightmare?

The superior culture in Nietzsche under Agamben's criticism

Abstract

The present work aims to reconstruct Nietzsche’s argument about the conditions of emergence of a superior culture, taking as a criterion for evaluating, the fecundity of life. For this purpose, we will proceed as follows: (1) to recover the arguments on the said topic, mostly using what Nietzsche writes in Human, all too human, and then (2) to enter with a critique of Nietzsche’s thinking from the work of Giorgio Agamben. Such inclusion is justified by the fact that Agamben is also known contemporaneously as a critic of metaphysical dualisms centered on capturing the potential of life, through his genealogy of the contemporary. This makes the Italian somehow debtor as well as a critic of Nietzsche’s philosophical project. For all this, even if the direct references to Nietzsche in the work of the Italian are not plentiful, we try to show that the relationship between the two philosophers is not absurd. Rather, it is about possible footsteps in the genealogical dance of Western culture.