Nietzsche: on the art of the speech

Abstract

This article aims at arousing in the reader a curiosity on what concerns rhetoric features in the own person of Nietzsche, having as reference one of his texts, Course in Rhetoric. It is also intended here to carry out a philosophical reflection on the importance of the use of oral and written languages devices, provided that, the use of such devices were adopted by Nietzsche as well as the ones criticized in the referred text, what, approximates Nietzsche of a rhetoric Plato, for example and Plato antecedes in the history of philosophy. Rhetoric as expression of will to power is also discussed in this article.