On the putrid The parasite as “atom of relation” in philosophy, literature and medicine

Abstract

Nietzsche, Pasteur and Zola make the process of fermentation one of the conditions of possibility of their discursive modalities, linking to the rotten body that breaks down and decomposes, in many sound effects in three compounds of theoretical sensation. The agent of exchange, the general equivalent or atom of relation: the parasite is in these authors, associated with the transvaluation of the depth in the philosophical, medical and literary levels, where the parasitical contamination forces of the microbial germ operate. Degenerate bodies, corrupted bodies, decomposed bodies are founded in each one of these levels, transmutating the idea of the parasite that Nietzsche, Pasteur and Zola bring through their respective construction of treaties on parasitology: putrid universal discourses, where to demonstrate is to implicate, leading to a development, to a self-referential explication of the displacement of meaning in these discourse of language derived from the atom of relation.