L’estetica di Nietzsche: l’umano tra salute e malattia. 1. La centralità del patologico nell’interpretazione di Nietzsche

Nietzsche’s life and thinking have been deeply influenced by the experience of illness and the related struggle to health, in a way that goes far beyond the very well-known episode of his mental breakdown. In the first part of this paper the history of the reception of the topic is reconsidered, focusing on the initial, “moral” interpretation of health and illness in Nietzsche, on the later stances of Thomas Mann and Georges Canguilhelm, the former offering a psychological perspective, the later a physiological one, and ending with an overview of newer studies on the question.