Abstract
This article offers a discussion about the critical legacy around the notion of great politics in the work of Nietzsche, a subject dominated by three positions: 1) Nietzsche is reduced to a subjetctivist ironist, with no (or scarce) relevance to the political theory; (2) he is stigmatized as an intellectual forerunner of political totalitarianisms; (3) he is presented as an authentic political thinker, beyond totalitarianisms, and able to fecundate some democratic conceptions of political life. About this last aspect, in spite of Nietzsche's critics to modernity and to democracy, it's possible to see that his work defends the notion that the radical democracy, given his anti-democratic character and perspective, displays itself in defense of the agonistic character of each and every relation of power. Indeed, since there is an insurmountable contingency in particular perspectives in search of hegemony, we cannot speak in the name of "great other" (God, Reason, man, Nation). Eventually, the article advocates the notion of a genealogical hermeneutics that finds out the force from which emerges the fundamental activity: the transvaluating interpretation act. In this transvaluation is inscribed a time of domain, that urges the political turn of Nietzsche's thinking, inspired by the "power fisiology", bringing about what the philosopher called "the great politics".
Keywords:
great politics; democracy; transvaluation; hermeneutics; will to power