Aurora: Pensamientos sobre los prejuicios morales

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Germán Cano (Translator)

Compuesta en su gran mayoría por aforismos, con "Aurora'' (1881) Nietzsche afianza su filosofía del martillo en la madurez. En palabras del «Con este libro comienza mi campaña contra la moral [...] ¿Dónde busca su autor aquella nueva mañana, aquel delicado arrebol no descubierto aún, con el que de nuevo un día –¡ay, toda una serie, un mundo entero de nuevos días!– comienza? En una transvaloración de todos los valores, en el desvincularse de todos los valores morales, en un decir sí y en una confianza en todo lo que hasta hoy se ha venido prohibiendo, despreciando, maldiciendo...».

442 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2022

About the author

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Nietzsche's work spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favour of perspectivism; a genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and a related theory of master–slave morality; the aesthetic affirmation of life in response to both the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; the notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterisation of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and his doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome cultural and moral mores in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
After his death, Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of his manuscripts. She edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology, often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism. 20th-century scholars such as Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, and Georges Bataille defended Nietzsche against this interpretation, and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th- and early 21st-century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, music, poetry, politics, and popular culture.

Reviews

[La Kantiana con enKanto · Rating 4 out of 5]

El libro es ameno e interesante, recogiendo un poco de todo su pensamiento.
Nietzsche me cae bien porque critica todo, pero estoy segura de que si lo hubiera conocido en su época me resultaría un plasta que no para de quejarse. Lou-Salomé tenía razones para friendzonearlo.

[Bekan Romero · Rating 3 out of 5]

5. Un libro muy repetitivo que de vez en cuando soltaba una que otra joyita. Este trabajo me ha desanimado mucho para leer otros trabajos que me faltan de nietzche.

[Felipe Arriagada · Rating 3 out of 5]

Debo admitir que desde el libro quinto ya estaba totalmente agotado

[Marcos Andrade · Rating 5 out of 5]

En este libro encontramos a un Nietzsche más docente y amigable para el lector, que el Nietzsche dialéctico y retórico al que estamos acostumbrados. Me atrevería a decir que en este libro Nietzsche intenta plasmar un resumen de toda su filosofía.

Aurora es una obra en la que el autor deconstruye las bases morales sobre la que se levanta la sociedad occidental, con el fin de demostrar que aquellos conceptos metafísicos como "la ética", "la moral", " lo que está bien" o "lo que está mal" no han sido mas que trabas y limitaciones para que el hombre no pueda desarrolarse y progresar. En otras palabras, en Aurora, Nietzsche nos intenta enseñar que la única forma de lograr la transición del hombre común (humano demasiado humano) a un hombre avanzado y mejorado (superhombre), es a través de la anulación de los principios morales que tenemos como sociedad (así habló Zaratustra)