Living Philosophy: On the Experimental Derivations of the Nietzschean Critique of Nineteenth-Century European Culture and Education

In this article, we approach the work of Friedrich Nietzsche with the aim of analyzing how his early critique of German educational institutions, and specifically of the university philosophy of his time, progressively evolves throughout his writings into the outlines of a late conception of philosophy, founded on life itself as a means of knowledge through "experimentation". Nietzsche's diagnosis is critical, and its resolution poses a great challenge for future thinkers: it is about living experimentally what is written, going beyond books. The culture of the essay emerges as the ultimate horizon for this philosophical -experimental praxis.