Prologue to the book "Nietzsche and Creativity The heir to Dionysus" by Luis Fernando Araya

Abstract

Somewhere, Roland Barthes states that "the signifier never goes out of style." What we call reality is just a clue - a sign - in which every mortal breaks the meaning. The magic is that the sign survives its temporal meanings.
Nietzsche wanted to live among signifiers. He even went on to urge the chimera of the pure signifier: "To be able to read a text without any interpretation", behold its utopia.
This sounds contradictory, as reading is nothing without understanding. But we need to explain ourselves.
Nietzsche's ununderlented philosophy does not seek absolute zero. An initial assumption prevents it: the body. Through the body we are always located, we acquire a perspective, we become a point of view. A point of view prior to any speech.
There is no knowledge without a body, then. Which could certainly be a form of interpretation, almost a fatality. Nietzsche's phrase will have to be resumed and understood according to the author's intention: reading is equivalent in his language to a first contact with the other, with the outside, from the body.