Table Of ContentNietzsche, 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
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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
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List of illustrations page
IX
List of contributors
X
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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
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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
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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
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