• wanderoff
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    In the birth of tragedy, nietzsche associates music with dionysus? Why? Isn't apollo the God of music? And apollo is also the other figure in the birth of tragedy? Why no mention of this contradiction(?)
  • Tom Storm
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    I guess because Nietzsche saw music is a pure Dionysian artform - it doesn’t appeal to our rational mind but rather to pure emotions, it is dance, movement, energy, celebration, abandonment and wordless catharsis. Nietzsche actually wanted to become a composer before philology. There is, I guess, Apollonian music too - Bach, perhaps and that terrible calming musical slush people use for meditation. I wonder what others think.
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