Sunday, August 11, 2013

Archtecture and Individuation

As has been previously proposed, Architecture symbolizes Power as that which is "conscious of no witnesses around it", and "reposes in itself" (#11, 'Expeditions', Twilight of the Idols), not as vertically superior, as Nietzsche asserts, but as located within.  Those characterizations also help explain, though they are not likely intended as such, his classification of Architecture as a non-Apollinian Art.  For, according to his own Apollinian principle, derived from Schopenhauer, Individuality is a superficial illusion, whereas, the creation of an enclosure produces an individual space, thereby demonstrating the principle of Individuation as concrete and internal.  In other words, Architecture illustrates that Individuation is an Artifactual process.  Thus, for example, the Humean image of the Self that is most accurate is not the "bundle", but the "theater".

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