Nietzsche y la historia. La infelicidad del animal y la esperanza del hombre

Abstract

The Second Untimely Meditation establishes a functional relation to history: the latter benets life when it is considered from an illusory, dissimulated, and strategic perspective. The article analyzes two consequences of this: the critique of history as an objective science and the nuances entailed by considering it as a narrative. If G. Agamben has shown how history arises in the interstice between language and discourse, the debate should focus on the process through which subjectivity acquires a language that must be historicized. This implies exploring the relations between happiness and history as a repository of meaning and hope.