NIETZSCHE
LO STILE E LA FORMA PLURALE DEL PENSIERO

Andrea Lucchini

As style has been widely discussed during the last century as a philosophical theme, for example in all the heterogeneous context of hermeneutics thought, it is hard furthermore to deny the importance of Nietzsche’s contribution in outlining and formulating this issue. The
present research is intended to investigate the conception of style in Nietzsche’s philosophy (even If rarely explicitly thematized) involving a wider consideration of the fundamental engagement between form and content in the Nietzschean deconstruction of scientific rationality as apex of nihilism. The topic is approached through a comparison, firstly proposed by Gianni Vattimo, to Walter Benjamin’s thought, and especially to his conception of allegory as a new possible way to overcome the crisis of western culture and its tools of expression, rethinking at the same time the image of thought itself. The “style issue” in Nietzsche is in fact the apparatus through which is possible to understand and let emerge the main lines of tendency of his philosophical struggle in problematizing science and metaphysics in general. As theoretical objectivism is rejected, consisting in a very specific and refined instrument of power, it arises the question around what is the actual form needed by a new rationality. The peculiar stylistic approach easily noticeable in Nietzsche’s texts is therefore considered in this article as a philosophical issue, and even a fundamental one, which is referred to the problematic relation between language, sense, value and power as developed by Nietzsche in his last-years’ production.