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Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts edited by SALIM KEMAL University of Dundee IVAN GASKELL Harvard University Art Museums and DANIEL W. CONWAY The Pennsylvania State University CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Nietzsche's writings .have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. They discuss the transformative power which Nietzsche ascribes to aesthetic activity, including his aesthetic justification of existence and its fusion of social and personal existence, and they investigate his experiments with an "aesthetic politics" and a politicization of aesthetics. Together their essays set out the ground for future debate about the interrelation between art, philosophy, and value. Contributors to this volume Stephen Bonn Randall Havas Ernst Behler Timothy W. Hiles John Carvalho Fiona Jenkins Claudia Crawford Salim Kemal Daniel W. Conway Martha Nussbaum Adrian Del Caro Aaron Ridley Ivan Gaskell Henry Staten Nietzsche's writings have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. They discuss the transformative power Nietzsche ascribes to aesthetic activity, including his aesthetic justification of existence and its fusion of social and personal existence, and they investigate his experiments with an "aesthetic politics" and a politicization of aesthetics. Together their essays set out the ground for future debate about the interrela tion between art, philosophy, and value. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS Series editors SALIM KEMAL and IVAN GASKELL Nietzsche, philosophy and the arts CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS Series editors SALIM KEMAL and IVAN GASKELL Advisory board Stanley Cavell, R. K. Elliott, Stanley E. Fish, David Freedberg, Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Gage, Carl Hausman, Ronald Hepburn, Mary Hesse, Hans-Robert Jauss, Martin Kemp, Jean Michel Massing, Michael Podro, Edward S. Said, Michael Tanner PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge, CB2 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-3211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1998 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1998 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in Melior 10/12.5 pt [CE] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Nietzsche, philosophy and the arts / edited by Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway. p. cm. - (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0521 59381 6 (hardback) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 - Aesthetics. 2. Aesthetics, Modern - 19th century. I. Kemal, Salim. II. Gaskell, Ivan. III. Conway, Daniel W. IV. Series. B3318. A4N54 1998 97-18726 CIP 111'.85'092 dc21 ISBN 0 521 59381 6 hardback Contents . List of illustrations page IX List of contributors X .. List of abbreviations xu Nietzsche and art 1 SALIM KEMAL, IVAN GASKELL, and DANIEL W. CONWA Y 1 Nietzsche's conception of irony 13 ERNST BEHLER 2 The transfigurations of intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Dionysus 36 MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM 3 Nietzschean self-transformation and the transformation of the Dionysian 70 ADRIAN DEL CARO 4 Socratism and the question of aesthetic justification 92 RANDALL HAVAS 5 What is the meaning of aesthetic ideals? 128 AARON RIDLEY 6 The splitting of historical consciousness 148 STEPHEN BANN 7 Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, truth, and The Birth of Tragedy 162 TIMOTHY W. HILES 8 Improvisations, on Nietzsche, on jazz 187 JOHN CARVALHO .. vu Contents 9 Performative identity: Nietzsche on the force of art and language 212 FIONA JENKINS 10 Dionysus lost and found: literary genres in the political thought of Nietzsche and Lukacs 239 HENRY STATEN 11 Nietzsche's politics of aesthetic genius 257 SALIM KEMAL 12 Love's labor's lost: the philosopher's Versucherkunst 287 DANIEL W. CONWAY 13 Nietzsche's Dionysian arts: dance, song, and silence 310 CLAUDIA CRAWFORD Index 342 viii Illustrations 6.1 Marie-Philippe Coup in de la Couperie, Sully page 154 showing his Grandson the Monument containing the Heart of Henri IV at La Fleche, Musee National du Chateau de Pau. Photo © RMN 7.1 Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze, 1902, detail: 163 "Yearning for Happiness," 2.2 x 34 m. (panel), Osterreichischen Galerie, Vienna 7.2 Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze, 1902, detail: 164 "The Hostile Powers," 2.2 x 34 m., Osterreich- ischen Galerie, Vienna 7.3 Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze, 1902, detail: 165 "Poetry," 2.2 x 34 m., Osterreichischen Galerie, Vienna 7.4 Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze, 1902, detail: 166 "This Kiss for the Whole World," 2.2 x 34 m., Osterreichischen Galerie, Vienna 7.5 Gustav Klimt, Philosophy, 1899-1907. Oil on 173 canvas, 43 x 300 cm. Destroyed by fire in 1945. Reproduced with permission of the Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg . lX
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