Minotaur : o czytelniku w pismach Nietzschego

Abstract

The essay defines the notion of meta-text as writing which inevitably has to question it s own categories. Thus, the assertions of the criticall discourse are placed in the sphere of Nietzsche's aesthetic position" (aestetische Zustand), ie the display the sign character of being, secondary character of thought with regard to sign and the fictive mode of the descriptive categories normally assumed to be "objective ". In his works Nietzsche theorizes the category of the "reader" by, first , his scorn for the reader’s inability to understand texts , second, by pointing out that this inability is caused by the reader’ s adherence to the letter which enables him to domesticate a text and shun the places o f uncertainty and mystery. The authentic reading -located by Nietzsche in the distant future- will have to be based upon not so much "eyes" as "blood and fingers" which. change calls for the necessary transformation of the antropocentric paradigm of thirking. It is this revaluation of thinking which transforms the modern, inauthentic reader into a "monster" or "almost a cow".