The enigma of the Dionysian and the intention in The Birth of Tragedy

Authors

  • Patrick Wotling Universidad de Reims

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi17.10845

Keywords:

dyonisian, apollinian, tragedy, reality

Abstract

This paper investigates the status and difficulties of the «dionysian» in The Birth of Tragedy, as well as the nature of the link between the apollinian and the dionysian drives. Although they are originally introduced in keeping with a dualistic perspective, important clues point to the possibility that they might in fact be asymmetrical, and suggest that the dionysian is to be considered the basis underlying the apollinian process. At the same time, however, it appears that the dionysian can only be thought of and reached by means of the apollinian process. What, then, does Nietzsche exactly aim at when developing the complicated logic of The Birth of Tragedy? Is it not, first and foremost, to reveal the peculiarity of our relationship to reality?

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Author Biography

  • Patrick Wotling, Universidad de Reims

    Antiguo alumno de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure. Profesor en la Universidad de Reims. Fundador y codirector del Groupe International de Recherches sur Nietzsche (GIRN). Ha publicado Nietzsche et le problème de la civilisation, (PUF, rééd. 2012), La pensée du sous-sol (Allia, rééd. 2015), La philosophie de l’esprit libre. Introduction à Nietzsche (Flammarion, 2008), Nietzsche (Le cavalier bleu, coll. « Idées reçues », 2009), Dictionnaire Nietzsche (en collaboration avec Céline Denat, Ellipses, 2013), « Oui, l’homme fut un essai ». La philosophie de l’avenir selon Nietzsche (PUF, 2016). Traductor al francés de varias obras de Nietzsche

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The enigma of the Dionysian and the intention in The Birth of Tragedy. (2020). Estudios Nietzsche, 17, 115-126. https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi17.10845