Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Dionysus and Species-Principle

Inadvertently deleted has been the 2-9-16 posting, which proposes that the production and dissemination of Art, as presented in the Critique of Judgment, can be conceived as the manifestation of a Species-principle, perhaps an Evolutionary one.  The key point is that while the Universality of his concept of Reason transcends Humanity, i. e. his deity is Rational, that of Art, i. e. the Universality of Taste, and the exemplariness of Genius, is strictly Human.  Furthermore, the novelty of Art is indicative of an at least Micro-Evolutionary principle.  Now, Kant likely conceives the process as multi-phased, since his exemplars of Art include Poetry and Painting, the productions of which are not simultaneous with their receptivity.  But, one case of artistic and audience immediacy is Music, which suggests that Nietzsche's Dionysus is a Species-principle, which would the communal spirit of some musical events.

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