Communication, Art, Genius

The immediate aim of any communication is to share some content.  Now, that Genius transcends specific Art forms indicates that common to them is the exhiliration that constitutes the experience of being creative.  Accordingly, the ultimate content of any product of Genius is Genius itself, and it is this Exhiliration that the Artist seeks to share with others.  So, Nietzche's privileging of Music and Tragedy is, fundamently, a recognition of the paradigmatic immediacy of Communication at such events, a sharing that transforms an assemblage of individuals into members of a species, artists as much as audience.