The Un-Nichial Thought of Nietzsche

In the early 1880s, after this positive-ish period where he was very keen on science, he returns again and again. to the thought that there's something actually thoroughly good about, at least some suffering. The way in which our shapes an apparently formless reality was also mirrored in what he said about how we might approach our own lives. He had a consistent view that art is something which trades in illusions and deceptions - more of it not meaning that as a criticism. That's a very unorthodox position, if you like, in the history of thinking about art. And I don't think it's just of historical interest; almost all philosophers have wanted to do is say that art