Nietzsche and the MacGuffin

Essay of Cultural Historiography

Abstract

Taking as its starting point the link established by Hans Blumemberg between the MacGuffin and the historical temporality ascribed to the dilated –through the pursuit of the paths of mystery– “modes” and “behaviors” of Dasein’s unity, and from the perspective of the modulation of historiography as a research practice and, later, a theoretical one, this article discusses the relation of this link to the new cultural history by instrumentalizing the categories that Nietzsche used to delimit the form and content of the knowledge of history and historiography’s assets as conditioning values of cultural creation and affirmation.