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Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and life

Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and life
Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and life
Against the claim that Nietzsche’s early and late views on confronting the truth about human existence differ widely, this article argues that in The Birth of Tragedy tragic art is affirmative of life and not limited to beautifying illusion, while later works still contain the idea that artistic production of beauty is a falsification necessary to make existence bearable for us. Nietzsche did not start with the view that art’s value lies in sheer illusion, nor end with the view that truth should be confronted wholly without illusion, but is ambivalent on this issue throughout.
39-56
Oxford University Press
Janaway, Christopher
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Came, Daniel
Janaway, Christopher
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Came, Daniel

Janaway, Christopher (2014) Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and life. In, Came, Daniel (ed.) Nietzsche on Art and Life. Oxford, GB. Oxford University Press, pp. 39-56.

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Against the claim that Nietzsche’s early and late views on confronting the truth about human existence differ widely, this article argues that in The Birth of Tragedy tragic art is affirmative of life and not limited to beautifying illusion, while later works still contain the idea that artistic production of beauty is a falsification necessary to make existence bearable for us. Nietzsche did not start with the view that art’s value lies in sheer illusion, nor end with the view that truth should be confronted wholly without illusion, but is ambivalent on this issue throughout.

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Published date: 2014

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Local EPrints ID: 142077
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/142077
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ORCID for Christopher Janaway: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9600-8837

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Date deposited: 31 Mar 2010 11:29
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:46

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