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ZENGOTITA, Alonso. Cultivating the Exception: Discursive Monstrosity in Nietzsche. Valenciana [online]. 2022, vol.15, n.29, pp.221-251.  Epub 08-Abr-2022. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v14i29.566.

The subject of discursive construction in Nietzsche has been worked on numerous times, but practically exclusively from the place of language, articulated to the notions of truth, metaphor, memory, lies, conscience, among others.

Without taking the notion of language centrally, this article will seek to work on the way in which discursivity in Nietzsche is constructed by articulating it to the way in which the figure of genius is thought. In other words, just as the genius will appear as a monstrous exceptionality, it will be sought to account for how Nietzschean discursiveness presents the same characterization in the face of canonical epistemology, the one that Nietzsche seeks to confront. In order to do this, in the first place it will be developed how Nietzsche thinks of the genius as an exception, to then give an account of the differential place that said exception occupies with respect to the canonical biological perspective with which it confronts: that of Darwin. From here, by deploying the Nietzschean discursive construction modality, we will seek to establish how and from what dynamics this discourse appears as an exceptional monstrosity with respect to the predominant epistemology of its time.

Palavras-chave : Nietzche; Genius; Discourse; Construction; Monstrosity.