Sunday, August 21, 2016

Book and Dionysian

Though Nietzsche is among the first mainstream Philosophers to express a self-awareness of writing a book, he does not submit the act itself to specific scutiny.  He, thus, offers no classification of the Art as either Dionysian or Apollonian.  Regsrdless, on the one hand, as an individual entity, a book would seem to be the product of an Apollonian process.  But, on the other, the subtitle of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "A Book for Everyone and No One", signifies a Dionysian perspective.  Furthermore, the phrase alludes to the human species in #1 of The Gay Science.  So, by implication, that his audience is individuated is, while not illusory, superficial with respect to the species content of the work.  Thus illustrated is the model of a social order in which the Atomism that has predominated for centuries is undermined.  Still, to date, even though Freud, among others, has studied the tensions between the established and the nascent, the former still prevails in many places, especially the U. S.

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