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Nietzsche an underpinning to my aesthetic ideal?
In response to gawalt’s comment to the previous blog entry.
No. I was trying to distinguish my ambivalence towards the value of work I’ve done with Nietzsche’s certainty.
But your question regarding the underpinnings to my aesthetic ideal is interesting.
It might be Nietzschean but it is difficult to say, particularly because Nietzsche’s aesthetics and his views about the function of art changed throughout his life.
When I was younger I read Nietzsche and other authors influenced by his ideas. Those readings had an impact on me, among other things because they came at the right time and because I didn’t have a well-developed frame of reference. So I think it is likely that to some extent Nietzsche has influenced my work—possibly to a large extent—but the way in which his ideas influenced my work and thought are indistinguishable now from the foundation of my point of view. I probably read him too early.
It makes me think of an old friend who, regarding the books of Hermann Hesse, said: “Demian” is a book that should only be read when you are starting your life and “Steppenwolf” a book that should only be read when you are coming back from life. I am not sure what he meant but it sounds right.
As a youth it is easier to feel comfortable with adoring Nietzsche.
No. I was trying to distinguish my ambivalence towards the value of work I’ve done with Nietzsche’s certainty.
But your question regarding the underpinnings to my aesthetic ideal is interesting.
It might be Nietzschean but it is difficult to say, particularly because Nietzsche’s aesthetics and his views about the function of art changed throughout his life.
When I was younger I read Nietzsche and other authors influenced by his ideas. Those readings had an impact on me, among other things because they came at the right time and because I didn’t have a well-developed frame of reference. So I think it is likely that to some extent Nietzsche has influenced my work—possibly to a large extent—but the way in which his ideas influenced my work and thought are indistinguishable now from the foundation of my point of view. I probably read him too early.
It makes me think of an old friend who, regarding the books of Hermann Hesse, said: “Demian” is a book that should only be read when you are starting your life and “Steppenwolf” a book that should only be read when you are coming back from life. I am not sure what he meant but it sounds right.
As a youth it is easier to feel comfortable with adoring Nietzsche.
Labels: Ramblings
posted by EMC at
6:44 PM
1 Comments:
"As a youth it is easier to feel comfortable with adoring Nietzsche"
I like and agree how you said it was an end in the last post about your work.
But isn't each new work a new birth, a new youth, a new sound, that's how I see it.
as he said:
"Without music life would be a mistake"
So it's about hearing more?
And so like you noted your aesthetic will detach from those underpinnings as it no longer rings true, as it is past.
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