The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
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Apollonian and Dionysian Art
- Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy distinguishes two types of art: Apollonian and Dionysian.
- This distinction, influenced by Schopenhauer, compares representational art to non-representational art/music.
Nature of Apollonian and Dionysian
- Nietzsche links the Apollonian to individuation and the Dionysian to unity with nature.
- The Apollonian might represent linguistic or representational art forms, modifying our connection to the will.
Apollonian Control over Dionysian
- The Apollonian, linked to dream interpretation and prophecy, shapes the Dionysian's wild urges.
- This image-making prevents the Dionysian's overwhelming nature from consuming us, similar to Freud's dream theory.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Is He a Classicist or a Philologist?
01:30 • 2min
What Is Nichen's Argument?
03:07 • 2min
The Apollonian Description of Art in the Way Schopenhauer Was Describing It
05:26 • 2min
Socrates and the Apollonian
07:06 • 2min
The Apollonian, the Apollynian, the God of Sunlight and the Sun.
08:43 • 3min
The Connection Between Dreaming and Prophecy
11:26 • 2min
Socrates, the Apollinian, and Truth Seeking
13:12 • 2min
Is It Dionysus, Dionus?
15:10 • 2min
The Dionysiac
16:50 • 2min
The Apollonian Contemplation of Art
18:41 • 2min
The Ascetic Experience in Nicha
20:13 • 1min
Is There a Difference Between Reality and Beauty?
21:42 • 2min
The Apollonian Illusion
23:37 • 2min
The Apollonian and the Dionysiac as Aversion
26:00 • 2min
Hellenic History - The Synthesis Between the Scientific and the Artistic
28:00 • 3min
The Dionysian Festivals Come Early, Right?
31:17 • 2min
The Last Attained Period of Doric Art
32:59 • 3min
Doric Curus, Apollonian Music, and the Dionysian Architecture
35:46 • 2min
Attic Tragedies, Folk Music, and Socratism
37:37 • 2min
Dionysianism Is the Apollonian Take on the Suffering in the World
39:22 • 2min
The Ecstatic and Terrifying of Ecstasy
40:55 • 3min
The Naive in Art
43:57 • 2min
Is Homer the Naive?
45:43 • 2min
Theodose Sacayu
47:48 • 2min
The Progression in Hegalian Fashion Through History
49:29 • 3min
The Perpetually Attained Goal of the Primal Unity
52:19 • 2min
Is There a Difference Between Art and Beauty?
53:56 • 2min
Life Gets Meaning Through Art
55:36 • 2min
Nitia, Is It the Best Thing for You to Die Soon?
57:13 • 2min
The Synthesis of the Apollonian and the Dionysian in Art
58:57 • 2min
The Wrong Paragraph
01:01:02 • 2min
The Music Comes Before Lyrics
01:02:52 • 2min
The Folk Song in Comparison to Homer's Epic Poems
01:04:49 • 2min
Andhove How Written Right Off of Melody Gives Birth to Etry
01:06:28 • 2min
The Apollonian Is a Dionysian.
01:08:01 • 2min
Lyric Poems - Is Music the Juice of Everything?
01:09:53 • 2min
Isn't the Apollinian Imagistic Side of Music?
01:11:45 • 2min
The Attic Observer and the Attic Chorus
01:13:25 • 3min
The Apollonian Dimension
01:16:07 • 1min
The Dionysian Chorus
01:17:33 • 2min
The Dionysian Man Is Similar to Hamlet
01:19:15 • 2min
The Apolonian Is What Gives Structure and Then Gives Action
01:21:10 • 3min
Antigone Blacka - Isn't That the Kind of Thing That Needs No Tolerance?
01:23:43 • 2min
Goat Men - What's Happening on the Stage?
01:25:15 • 2min
Dionysus and the Chorus
01:27:08 • 3min
The Chorus and the Attic Tragedies
01:29:55 • 2min
Is the Chorus the Ideal Spectator?
01:32:05 • 2min
The Mirror Image of the Dionysian Man
01:33:46 • 2min
Apollonian Drama - Apollynian Craftsmanship
01:35:20 • 2min
The Euripidean Model Replaces Suspense
01:37:01 • 2min
What Do You Mean by Transgressiveness?
01:38:46 • 2min
Why Tragedy Is Awesome?
01:40:23 • 2min
Dionysius Is the Prosecutor of All Drama
01:42:03 • 2min
The Poems of John West - A Review
01:43:59 • 2min
Euripides and Socrates - The Attic Tragedies
01:45:38 • 2min
Isn't That the Problem With Euripides?
01:47:13 • 2min
Is It a Euripide in Playv Well, Vindesa Mentioned in Section 13?
01:48:50 • 2min
The Thinking Impulse at Work
01:50:27 • 3min
Didn't Go Over Because It Wasnt Popularly Success
01:53:11 • 2min
Is Knowledge the Basis of Virtue?
01:55:30 • 2min
Euripides's Socratic Tendency
01:57:08 • 2min
The Greek Tragedy That Speaks to Me Most Clearly Is Agamemnon
01:58:56 • 3min
The Chorus in Escalade
02:02:15 • 2min
Antigone's Just a Name, but Antigones Justa Holder
02:04:31 • 2min
Is Damon One of the Damond Parties?
02:06:35 • 2min
Socratism Is Not a Problem, It's an Opportunity
02:08:11 • 2min
The Master Morality and the Dionysian Morality
02:10:06 • 3min
Itver's a Parody of the Dionysian and the Apollinian
02:12:38 • 2min
I'm a Critic, and I Find It a Bit Frustrating.
02:14:21 • 2min
I've Read the Whole Thing, Ta Slog Parts at the End.
02:16:04 • 3min
Socrates and Nita's Criticism of Culture
02:19:13 • 2min
Is There a Socratic Spirit in the Book?
02:21:20 • 4min
Ongen N Coast.
02:24:56 • 22sec
The Festival of Dionysus
02:25:18 • 5min
Is It Possible to Live in a Dive Bar?
02:30:35 • 2min
The Mysticism on the Road, Is More Than We Know
02:32:21 • 2min
Dionysan Tragedy in Today's Movy Venu?
02:33:56 • 2min
Is It Safe to Lose Your Identity in a Sporting Event?
02:35:42 • 2min
The Athos of Lifeguis - I'm a Redskin's Fan.
02:38:08 • 1min
Can You Achieve Transcendence of the Self in a Society That's Truly Heterogeneous?
02:39:37 • 3min
The Public Ritual of a New World Order
02:42:19 • 2min
The Dionysic to the Apollonian
02:43:56 • 2min
On Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy (1872). Nietzsche thought that you could tell how vital or decadent a civilization was by its art, and said that ancient Greek tragedy was so great because it was a perfect synthesis of something highly formal/orderly/beautiful with the intuitive/unconscious/chaotic. But then Socrates ruined everything! With guest John Castro.
Includes a preview of the Aftershow feat. Greg Sadler.
End song: "Some Act" by Mark Lint and the Fake from "So Whaddaya Think?" (2000).