Nietzsche's relationship to Aristotle has not been sufficiently emphasized and explored by scholars. Several important studies have been undertaken in the past, but the theme has recently been abandoned in favor of a proliferation of essays on the relationship between Nietzsche and Plato. Yet Nietzsche's relationship with Aristotle is arguably much more profound than that with Plato, since the former served as an essential reference point and a favored source for Nietzsche, especially as regards the Poetics and the Rhetoric. And although scholarly studies have highlighted Nietzsche's criticisms of Aristotle, in fact many more debts than differences can be found in Nietzsche's philosophy. A more profound analysis would show how Nietzsche learned much more from Aristotle than he rejected.
In Alle origini della rappresentazione: La tragedia in Aristotele e Nietzsche (At the Origins of Representation: Tragedy in Aristotle and Nietzsche), Antonio Valentini deals with one of the central themes...
