Negation of Life: Reassessing Schopenhauer's Influence on Early Nietzsche's Metaphysics of Art [对生命的否定： 重估叔本华对早期尼采艺术形而上学的影响]

作者：Lü D.^*

来源：文艺理论研究, 2018, 38(2): 207-216.

• aesthetic experience
• artistic type
• early Nietzsche
• pessimism
• Schopenhauer

Abstract: This article aims to reveal the great influence of Schopenhauer's aesthetic thought on early Nietzsche's metaphysics ofart. Firstly, in terms of typology of art, early Nietzsche uses the framework of the Apollonian art / Dionysian art for the binarydivision of artistic types. Such binary division is the result of direct appropriation of Schopenhauer's artistic dichotomy. Thegeneral art which is the facsimile of the idea changes into Apollonian art, and music which is the facsimile of the will changes intoDionysian art. Secondly, in terms of the theory of aesthetic experience, early Nietzsche's concept of tragedy is composed of thetriple world which directly absorbs the theoretical achievements of Schopenhauer's aesthetic experience. Finally, regarding thecore issue of pessimism, early Nietzsche gives two solutions to the tragic truth of existence: the Apollonian solution and theDionysian solution, but the two solutions ultimately deny individual life and are pessimistic. Early Nietzsche is still aSchopenhauerian pessimist.

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  华东师范大学