Nietzsche on art and life

Nietzsche was not interested in the nature of art as such, or in providing an aesthetic theory of a traditional sort. For he regarded the significance of art to lie not in l'art pour l'art, but in the role that it might be play in enabling us positively to "revalue" the world and human experience. This volume brings together a number of distinguished figures in contemporary Anglo-American Nietzsche scholarship to examine his views on art and the aesthetic in the context of this wider philosophical project. All of the major themes of Nietzsche's aesthetics are discussed: art and the affirmation of life, the relationship between art and truth, music, tragedy, the nature of aesthetic experience, the role of art in Nietzsche's positive ethics, his critique of romanticism, and his ambivalent attitude towards Richard Wagner

Art and affirmation / Bernard Reginster -- Beauty is false, truth ugly : Nietzsche on art and life / Christopher Janaway -- Nietzsche on tragedy and morality / Christopher C. Raymond -- Nietzsche's illusion / Ken Gemes and Chris Sykes -- Orchestral metaphysics : The birth of tragedy between drama, opera, and philosophy / Stephen Mulhall -- Nietzsche on the aesthetics of character and virtue / Daniel Came -- Zarathustra vs. Faust, or anti-romantic rivalry among superhumans / Adrian Del Caro -- Attuned, trancendent, and transfigured : Nietzsche's appropriation of Schopenhauer's aesthetic psychology / A.E. Denham -- Nietzsche on distance, beauty, and truth / Sabina Lovibond -- Nietzsche and music / Aaron Ridley -- Nietzsche on Wagner / Roger Scruton.