FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE:

BETWEEN PHILOLOGY AND PHILOSOFY

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the concept of philology in the nineteenth century and — from it — postulate that Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was not a conventional philologist, committed to the dominant guidelines of philology of his time. This is due to: i) the heterodox conception of a philology-philosophical, based on one of the meanings of the term philology; and, especially, ii) to the Dionysischer Geist spirit (Dionysischer Geist) with which Friedrich Nietzsche covered his field of study/performance, when professor of classical philology at the University of Basel (1869-1879). This new Nietzschian philology predicts that studies of classical antiquity should be understood not only as a vehicle for aspending “big questions”, but also that such studies thrive at a time after the philologist's recognition as a “subject of knowledge”.