It is often assumed that the main assertions of the Birth of Tragedy about the Apollonian, the Dionysian, and more generally the function of art, rest on an implicit core of Schopenhauerian metaphysics, which Nietzsche would later have criticised and rejected 1. As stated by J. Young, there is " fairly wide agreement that the Birth incorporates without modification Schopenhauer's metaphysics " ...

this study addresses samuel beckett’s most celebrated play, waiting for godot, in an effort to analyze its characters from a novel perspective. since greek mythology has been undisputedly influential on western culture and literature, the researcher attempts to investigate a connection between greek mythology and the play. this study aims to reveal that even after more than fifty seven years of...

Conceptions of childhood in terms of ‘evil’ and ‘innocence’ transcend time and culture. These conflicting images are deployed by Chris Jenks as the Dionysian and Apollonian models of childhood to symbolize external and internal forms of control. Drawing on the literature on governmentality this article revisits these models and introduces a third – the ‘Athenian’ child – loosely analogous and s...

Art as Vitalizing Source or Denial of Life: On Inger Edelfeldt’s Künstlerinromane This article examines the role art in work Swedish author Edelfeldt. Based on an analysis short story “Skapelsen” (“The Creation,” 1995), argues that literary works present two opposing views art: imitation life and a source life, which turn are aligned with Nietzsche’s distinction between Apollonian Dionysian. Fu...

This paper discusses how a practice-based approach to public innovation can provide an alternative, critical means of looking at innovation. It unravels two ways practices exist in relation innovation: Apollonian and Dionysian practice approaches. The practice-approach is purposeful, speaking the actors’ plans interests rules game. In contrast, more spontaneous, bricolage-like that gathers peop...

This paper argues, following Friedrich Nietzsche, that recent evaluations of Google Earth uncritically privilege the product’s Apollonian determinations at the expense of its Dionysian uncertainties. Specifically, when we understand Google Earth as a virtual globe composed of surveyed panoramas, sober rationalization, dystopic control, and transparent order – or, even, as a tool for participati...

Abstract This essay pursues Gilbert Durand’s plea for a new anthropological spirit that would overcome the bureaucracy-or-madness dichotomy which has since Nietzsche left its imprint upon contemporary thought, forcing it to choose between an “Apollonian” ontology established some kind of first principle and “Dionysian” consisting in erasure any founding norm. It does so by reclaiming Dionysus A...

ion, to be conceptually interesting and also sensual, to balance the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Whether I succeeded in these artistic aims it is hard for me to say and in truth it is difficult to evaluate one's own work. Certainly though, in the course of this project I challenged my own conception of the trumpet and succeeded in finding new ways to broaden my practice using extended trumpet...

Modern medical technology and economic impositions tend to dehumanize the medical patient. This paper describes a targeted use of the hypnotic modality for relationship building, symptom management, and restoring a sense of self to the patient. To humanize medical care one patient at a time, examples are given for the use of the Hypnotic Induction Profile, the Eye Roll sign and AOD (Apollonian-...