At the Contours of Corporeality: Critique as Will to Power

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 157 - 170, 21.07.2018

Fulden İbrahimhakkıoğlu

https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.446449

Abstract

Foucault gives an account
of the contrast between Kantian and post-Kantian critique, which can be
summarized as a shift from universality to historicity. This shift to
historicity and contingency, for Foucault, opens up the possibility of
transgressive critical engagement whereby social transformation can take
place. In this essay, it is argued that Nietzsche’s work constitutes an
example of post-Kantian critique insofar as Nietzsche undertakes
critique in the form of revaluation of values through which the
historico-corporeal limits are exposed and ways to overcome them are
delineated. In this way, Nietzschean critique is an instance of will to
power inasmuch as it refers to an endless movement of overcoming.
Nietzsche thereby offers critique as a kind of symptomatology that is
tied to the corporeality of philosophy.

Keywords

Nietzsche, critique, will to power, body, Foucault

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