Resumen

ZAVATTA, Laura. The Prophetism of Nietzsche. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2009, vol.14, n.47, pp.93-114. ISSN 1315-5216.

Nietzsche’s prophetic vision reveals the décadence of Western civilization and encourages men, with Zarathustra’s messages, to cling to a new philosophy positioned ‘beyond good and evil’: ‘God’s Death’ and ‘Umwertung,’ the ‘Will to Power’ and the ‘Übermensch,’ the ‘Eternal return.’ According to Heidegger, Nietzsche’s nihilism is not only “the process of devaluating supreme values,” but it is the “preliminary stage of a ‘new’ set of values”; therefore it is not a “total decline (Niedergang),” but a “transfer (Übergang) to ‘new’ conditions of existence,” in which men will be capable of loving life (amor fati) and themselves totally.

Palabras clave : Décadence; nihilism; Umwertung; Übermensch.