Sunday, June 2, 2019

Genius, Dionysian, Synergy

As has been previously discussed, a super-person elevation is common to Kant's experience of Genius and Nietzsche's of the Dionysian principle.  In the case of former, the source of inspiration is "nature", while in the latter, at least at that stage of Nietzsche's development, the source is equivalent to Schopenhauer's "will to live".  Hence, neither considers that the experience is a specifically Human one.  Furthermore, neither examines the possibility of collective diversity involved in the experience.  Kant might have noticed the artist-audience relation by transposing it to the context of a Human History that he develops elsewhere, i. e. how the artistic experience functions as a motor of historical development.  Nietzsche does recognize that the Dionysian experience is collective, but restricting the scope of his analysis of it to the individual celebrant or to a composer, he misses the possibility of collective Genius, e. g. how an orchestra might be so elevated.  In other words, neither considers how the elevated artistic experience can be Synergic, with the Whole that is greater than the some of its Parts a Human collective, or, equivalently, an Organism, as has been previously discussed.

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