The Nietzsche’s “contagion” of Habermas

Abstract

This paper deals with some notes on the relationship between Nietzsche and Habermas. Such relation is realized in the three occasions when the thinker of communicative action focuses specifically on the thought of Nietzsche. The habermasian questions are considered, as a basic proposal and still in configuration, as, on the one hand, productive in the sense of bringing Nietzsche’s text to face the complexity of the philosophical foundation based on acceptable developments of contemporary philosophy of language, and, on the other hand, not entirely fruitful in regard to a possible investigation of Nietzsche’s text at the direction of the communicative bases implicit under the lines of power relations. Thus it will be possible to outline, as conclusion, the relevance of a philosophical project that seeks to uncover the communicative interaction not exclusively in terms of a theory of language but also in relation to the "bodily" of experience.