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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Why is that Art?

Nietzsche

"Dionysian represents a collapse of borders,frenzy,and excess.  The Apollonian is close to Formalism.  The Dionysian embraces ambiguity, content beneath the visible surface, and messy complexity that a 'detached' gaze cannont reveal."

Nietzsche upholds asthetics over politics: He doubts that the ills of existence can be solved by politics and instead advocates that an asethetic appreciation of life can provide meaning and significance.  The essence of asthetic doing and seeing for Nietzsche is willful transfiguration and transformation toward perfection.  The aroused and frenzied will is the motivating power and aesthetic perception.

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