Nietzsche’s Artistic Ideal in Human, All Too Human and the Case of Music
(2021)
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- The aim of this paper is to consider if and how music can satisfy the demands of Nietzsche’s conception of successful art in Human, All Too Human and its two supplements. The two main criteria of his artistic ideal, I argue, are the artist’s successful demonstration of a “dance in chains” and a certain realism in the work’s subject matter. I intend to show that music’s satisfaction of this ideal as a whole hinges on its expressive capacities, which Nietzsche progressively reconsiders in these texts, as well as on how the composers manage them.
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Lebeau-Henry, C. (2021). Nietzsche’s Artistic Ideal in Human, All Too Human and the Case of Music. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, 12, 66-83. (Original work published 2021)