Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsches PoliticoAesthetics Student Edition

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Resentment and the Feminine in Nietzsches
Politico-AestheticsStudent Edition

• By Caroline Joan S. Picart

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Pre-Zarathustran Nietzsche

• The Birth of Tragedy 1872
• Human, All Too Human I 1878

Things to Think About
Metaphors Feminine (Myth) vs. Woman
(Reality) Modernity as sick
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The Birth of Tragedy
DARK Dionysus God of ______
_________________________________________ -
nature and instincts

• LIGHT
• Apollo God of _______ __________________________
  _______________ -
• beauty and illusion

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Trick Question

• How do two men have a baby?

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Healthy Art
Raphaels Transfiguration
But all good things must come to an end
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Tragedy is Dead!

• Tragedy is killed by Socrates!
• Why is this so bad?

• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________
• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  __________

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Goals of The Birth

• To show how the duality of human nature
  (light/dark, masculine/feminine) is important to
• _____________________________
• _____________________________
• To salvage modernity by acting as a midwife for
  the rebirth of classical tragedy

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Lets Talk!

• What do you think the metaphor of the midwife
  means?
• (Hint think in terms of the birth of Tragedy
  and the union of Apollo and Dionysus)
• Moving on.

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Human, all too Human

• Written 1878 - Six years after The Birth
• Reflects some CHANGES in Nietzsches philosophy

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Nietzsches Conclusions

• The more positive and useful feminine exists
  only in myth. Replaced with the uneducated
  woman of reality
• Attempts to re-evaluate science and art in
  terms of Socrates

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Did you get it?

• Why do you think this work was initially rejected
  when it was published?
• What do you think of Nietzsches views of
  Socrates? How does Socrates sicken healthy art
  in The Birth?
• What do Nietzsches beliefs of feminine and woman
  mean to you? Is this concept just crazy talk?