Review article
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.15.2.5
Reflection on the Artistic Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Božica Dragišić
Ivan Šestak
orcid.org/0000-0002-2088-9041
Abstract
Friedrich Nietzsche is a very impressive figure of modern philosophy. His thought is directed to the critique of the European man shaped by a metaphysical heritage. On the other hand, he tries, in his own confrontation with reality, to bring a new perspective of philosophical thought. In its intuitive approaching of the world it intends to actualize itself as an artistic task. The goal of the philosopher is to crystallize his artistic being wherein he must creatively set new values. The considerable vagueness of Nietzsches’s work, a philosophy that hides more than it reveals, makes it almost impossible to represent his philosophical opus in an organic way. The reason for this is just Nietzsche’s unsystematic and poetically unutterable relation to reality in accordance with the consideration of the impossibility of formulating it in conceptual categories that would really refer to its essence. Aware of the impossibility of relying on metaphysics, to which Nietzsche attributed only a moralistic and value- systematic relationship with the world, he tries to introduce the discourse of future understanding in the form of intuitive recognition and justification of the paradox lying in the heraclitean essence of life, in which he, at the same time, grounds the artistic confirmation of life as a grandiose game of construction and devastation of the primordial ground.
Keywords
Dionysus; dionystian; Apollo; apollonian; Greek tragedy; tragic knowledge; art; game; revaluation of values; will to power; eternal recurrence of the same
Hrčak ID:
184980
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Publication date:
20.7.2017.
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