Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Early: origin and nature of Greek tragedy; Apollonian spirit and Dionysiac spirit Critique of 'historicism' (i.e. Humanities.

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Friedrich Nietzsche ( ) Early: origin and nature of Greek tragedy; Apollonian spirit and Dionysiac spirit Critique of 'historicism' (i.e. Humanities at the university) (Dionysiac aesthetic) (Defence of classical tradition)

1. Origin of Greek Tragedy The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music (1872) against: Winckelmann and Goethe (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Greek ideal of beauty (Johann Heinrich Tischbein, Goethe in Roman Campagna, 1807)

Greek ideal of beauty (2)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) Ursprung vs Anfang The timeless generator: 'The Real and Original Being' – 'thing in itself' – 'unhappy creator' – 'creative principle' – 'imagination' Division: Dionisos (music) and Apollo (speech) Fluctuation in 5 Ages of ancient Greek history: bronze (presocratics), Homeric (world), Dionisiac intermezzo, Doric art, Attic tragedy (fusion)

Tragedy: chorus and actor Diosysus' festivals in Diosysia (dance and chorus) The actor, second and third actor in 5 th c BC Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides Nietzsche's view

Birth of tragedy Apollonian ('logical') assessment of existence: (Buddhism) Irrational hope and joy Criticism & art POSE as Apollonian, when in fact... etc. Example: the Dionysiac spirit in George Eliot's essay, or in Taine

2. Nietzsche's critique of 'decadence' and 'historicism' Untimely Meditations, 1876 'The Cultural Philistine' 'On the Use and Abuse of History' Human, All Too Human, 1878 'From the Soul of Artists and Writers'

Educated Philistine

Decadent Historicism 3 types of history: monumental, antiquarian, critical Jacques Derrida's Grammatology, 1974

Nietzsche's attack on subjectivity Beyond Good and Evil, 1886 Descarte's cogito 'Prejudices of Philosophers' 'The Free Spirit' Boscovich's atom

Roger Joseph Boscovich ( )

Ambiguity of Nietzsche's style The will to truth which will still tempt us to many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers so far have spoken with respect - what questions has this will to truth not laid before us! What strange, wicked, questionable questions! That is a long story even now - and yet it seems as if it had scarcely begun. Is it any wonder that we should finally become suspicious, lose patience, and turn away impatiently? that we should finally learn from this Sphinx to ask questions, too? Who is it really that puts questions to us here? What in us really wants "truth"? ('On the Prejudices of Philosophers' in Beyond Good and Evil)

Nietzsche's impact on later thinkers Derrida's Grammatology Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilisation, 1965 criticisms of exclusion and power structrues (e.g. Prof. Sikorska's Voices against Silence) Alex Callinicos, 'The Jargon of Postmodernity' Eugene Lunn's definition of modernism

Callinicos & Lunn Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism, 1982 Aesthetic of Self-Consciousness or Self- Reflexiveness Simultaneity, Juxtaposition, or 'Montage' Paradox, Ambiguity, Uncertainty 'Dehumanization' and the Demise of [the notion of] the Integrated, Individual Subject or Personality

Possible exam questions Nietzsche and... (Derrida, Foucault) - Nietzsche as grammatologist - Nietzsche as critic of objectivity and logic (Discuss Nietzsche's birth of Greek tragedy.)