Output details
32 - Philosophy
University of Southampton
Chapter title
Die Schönheit ist falsch, die Wahrheit hässlich: Nietzsche über die Kunst und das Leben
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Walter de Gruyter
Book title
Die Philosophie des Tragischen Schopenhauer – Schelling – Nietzsche
ISBN of book
978-3-11-021663-9
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Against the claim that Nietzsche’s early and late views on confronting the truth about human existence differ widely, this article argues that in The Birth of Tragedy tragic art is affirmative of life and not limited to beautifying illusion, while later works still contain the idea that artistic production of beauty is a falsification necessary to make existence bearable for us. Nietzsche did not start with the view that art’s value lies in sheer illusion, nor end with the view that truth should be confronted wholly without illusion, but is ambivalent on this issue throughout.
