Die Schönheit ist falsch, die Wahrheit hässlich: Nietzsche über die Kunst und das Leben
Die Schönheit ist falsch, die Wahrheit hässlich: Nietzsche über die Kunst und das Leben
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.
978-3-11-021663-9
Janaway, Christopher
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October 2011
Janaway, Christopher
61c48538-365f-416f-b6f7-dfa4d4663475
Janaway, Christopher
(2011)
Die Schönheit ist falsch, die Wahrheit hässlich: Nietzsche über die Kunst und das Leben.
In,
Huhn, Lore and Schwab, Philipp
(eds.)
Die Philosophie des Tragischen Schopenhauer – Schelling – Nietzsche.
Berlin, DE.
Walter de Gruyter.
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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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