The cultural reception of Nietzsche. Some significant cases

Abstract

According to Heidegger, Nietzsche is a light under which every contemporary thinker creates, vindicates or demolishes. In contrast with the other big presence of the XX century called marxism, Nietzsche's intelectual authority is directly performed over the most diverse authors of the whole cultural spectrum. In front of this exuberance, to distinguish how Nietzsche's influence operate over ones and others, and how his successors, philosophers or literates articulate the diferent intelectual strategies to take possession of his work, helps us to evaluate in a particularly satisfactory way some of the most revealing fractures and culture divisions of the last hundred years and, also, understand our time better.