Author

Publication

2014-06-24 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780199545964
  • Open LibraryOL27557001M

Classifications

  • LCCB3318.A4N5 2014
  • LCCB3318.A4 N537 2014
  • LCCB3318.A4 N54 2014

Description

Nietzsche was not interested in the nature of art as such, or in providing an aesthetic theory of a traditional sort. For he regarded the significance of art to lie not in l'art pour l'art, but in the role that it might be play in enabling us positively to "revalue" the world and human experience. This volume brings together a number of distinguished figures in contemporary Anglo-American Nietzsche scholarship to examine his views on art and the aesthetic in the context of this wider philosophical project. All of the major themes of Nietzsche's aesthetics are discussed: art and the affirmation of life, the relationship between art and truth, music, tragedy, the nature of aesthetic experience, the role of art in Nietzsche's positive ethics, his critique of romanticism, and his ambivalent attitude towards Richard Wagner.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Nietzsche on Art and LifeHardcoverOxford University Press2014-06-24

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