“ES DENKT IN MIR”: THE INSEPULT CORPSE OF GOD AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL PARADOX OF REACTIVE NIILISM.
Nietzsche. Epistemology. Nihilism. Free spirit.
The present research starts form Nietzsche's hyperbolic critique in the face of epistemes, in particular that (episteme) in which Nietzsche locates, and fixes, the metaphor of the “death of God” (reactive nihilism). His argument: philosophical thought was, until then, hostage to an epistemological prison dictated by the “religious structure of thought”. By observing, according Nietzsche, modern man's attempt to radically break with this structure, we will announce a paradox: The metaphysical “a priori” leaves (“God”), the historical “a priori” enters (Foucault's epistemological ground ). The place of God was filled by another “idol”, the idea of an “epistemological ground” (deep foundations that define and delimit what an age can or cannot think). By identifying and characterizing this “epistemological paradox” of reactive nihilism, the research, pointing to the unburied corpse of god (a metaphor that introduces the concept of epistemological crutches), will problematize, borrowing (and re-signifying) the maxim “Es Denket In Mir” (Something thinks of me), the fact that, there is no longer God, but there is still “something” that says what can and cannot be thought.