The importance of the emotional state in Nietzche and Heidegger's thinking. Biopolitics by a childhood

Abstract

Etymologically in-fant means the one who does not speak. This fact has led to reflections that allow questioning dichotomies fundamental in Western thought, appropriate for the management in contemporary biopolitics: body/soul, nature/culture, reason/emotions, within which are also usually place not only male/female but also child/adult. In this paper I propose to distinguish childhood from in-fancy and understand the latter as a way of being of the human being not circumscribed to any temporality, on the contrary, infancy is always latent, inexhaustible potency and possibility of being and not being. Due to the concern about the loss of potency and openness are present in philosophical thinking, here we will see the different approaches of Nietzsche and Heidegger, who attribute to coexistence a loss of the sense of being and likewise they attribute to the emotional state a great importance in the process of remembrance, of self-care and of one's own uniqueness.