Thursday, April 11, 2013

Dionysian, Art, Communication

In Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche shows that all Art is genetically Dionysian, i. e. that dithyrambic Music inspires Dancing, which releases all the symbolic powers, including the Apollinian ones.  At the same, that demonstration implies that all Art is categorially Dionysian, as well.  For, to characterize anything as 'symbolic' is to classify it as a 'language', and, hence, as a medium of Communication.  Now, Communication unites discrete individuals, and, so, is a Dionysian activity in Nietzsche's system.  Thus, if all the Arts are symbolic, they are all media of Communication, and, hence, are all species of Dionysian activity.

2 comments:

  1. Hi, I am from Australia.
    Please find a completely different Understanding of art and culture via these references - the artist as Orpheus
    www.aboutadidam.org/readings/art_is_love/index.html

    www.adidaupclose.org/Art_and_Photography/rebirth_of_sacred_art.html

    Related references.
    www.consciousnessitself.org

    http://spiralledlight.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/4068

    www.beezone.com/whiteandorangeproject/index.html

    www.beezone.com/news.html

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