
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Isn't the Apollinian Imagistic Side of Music?
Wes: There's a certain kind of primorial, tive force that's associated with music. But it's uncontrolled and unstructured, even though there's such a thing as not rhythm and meter. I'm just looking at this last part here of six wer language as the organ and symbol of phenomena. Can never, by any means, disclose the innermost heart of music,. Language, in its attempt to imitate it, can only be in superficial contact with music. All eloquence of lyric poetry cannot bring deepest significance of the latter one step nearer to us.
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