HUGO BALL AND THE RECEPTION OF NIETZSCHE IN THE ARTISTIC AVANT-GARDES

Abstract

This article intends to present the edition that Prof. Manuel Barrios Casares has carried out of Hugo Ball’s text on Nietzsche, originally written as part of a doctoral thesis project between 1909 and 1910. The translation and annotation the text is preceded by an extensive prologue that is extremely interesting for its understanding and contextualization. Hugo Ball, promoter of Dadaism and friend of Kandinsky, captures the intellectual climate of the reception of Nietzsche’s thinking among the European artistic avant-gardes of the early 20th century in the text.