Por uma filologia do futuro:o que resta da polêmica entre Wilamowitz e o círculo de Nietzsche para os Estudos Clássicos hoje?

Abstract

In order to revisit the reception of the first book by the young philologist Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, published in 1872, we depart from some of the main issues at stake for the field of Altertumswissenschaft (Science of Antiquity) in the second half of the 19th century. After exploring important references for the modern foundation of this field (mainly Friedrich August Wolf), we approach the main documents published at the time of the controversy surrounding Nietzsche’s debut book and explain some developments from this violent debate: in our view, Wilamowitz’s criticisms to Nietzsche’s philological approach, pejoratively named Zukunftsphilologie (philology of the future), as well as Rohde’s to Wilamowitz, referring to an Afterphilologie (retrograde philology), together also with Wagner’s and Nietzsche’s own reflections, can still give rise to thinking about the potential of this field for a critical and creative action in the present.