Nietzsche or “Dionysus crucified”: from El hombre y lo divino by María Zambrano

Abstract

In this paper we examine the reading that the Spanish philosopher María Zambrano will do of Nietzsche’s work, and in particular his influence on the composition of The Man and the Divine, especially in relation to the issues of “God is dead” and “The superman delirium”. Moreover our article takes stock of Nietzsche’s presence in the earlier work of the thinker, finally exposing her interpretation of the “madness” of Nietzsche from the complex symbolic relations that she establishes between Dionysus and Christ.