TENSÃO: UM CONCEITO PARA O GRANDE E O PEQUENO

This article intends to analyze the importance of the concept of tension (Spannung) in the works of Nietzsche. Not only the meaning of the term “tension” will be elucidated, but also its intimate connection with the concept of “greatness”, from the characterization of the great men. In this sense, it will be described the difficulties of the great men to preserve their own tension when living together with the little ones and how these little men reveal themselves as such according to the excess or lack of tension.