Nietzsche Circle writes:

"Nietzsche and the Future of Art"
New York City, Dec. 9, 2005

The NIETZSCHE CIRCLE with the support of Deutsches Haus presents

Nietzsche and the Future of Art:

The Effect of Nietzsche's Aesthetics on the Art of the Twentieth Century

A lecture with slides by Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen

At the beginning of the twentieth century, shortly after Nietzsche's death, artists in all the principal fields of artistic endeavor knowingly and openly adopted the philosopher's aesthetic ideas and used them to revolutionize art. In this paper, the authors will examine principal practitioners of the visual arts, literature, and music to locate Nietzsche's influence, an influence that made much of Modernism possible. It is an influence that has not been exhausted. Although over the last 30 years much argumentation has been devoted to announcing the death of art, a study of Nietzsche's aesthetic thought reveals the project that initiated twentieth-century art has yet to be realized fully. The authors will demonstrate that Nietzsche's writings can be distilled into an aesthetic philosophy that charts future possibilities for an art devoted to revealing the truth of the world and that such possibilities are continuing to be explored by contemporary artists.

MARK DANIEL COHEN & FRIEDRICH ULFERS

Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen are preparing a book of Nietzsche's ontology and cosmology, and his conception of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same, viewed from a scientific perspective. Together, they have recently published several essays: "Friedrich Nietzsche as a Bridge from 19th Century Atomistic Science to the Process Philosophy of 20th Century Physics, Literature, and Ethics," "Nietzsche's Ontological Roots in Goethe's Classicism," which appears in the volume Nietzsche and Antiquity, "Nietzsche's 'Postmodernism': A Return to 'Classicism'," and “The Effect of Nietzsche's Aesthetics on the Art of the Twentieth Century.”

Friday, December 9th, 2005

NYU’s Deutsches Haus

42 Washington Mews (at University Place)

7 PM

Admission: $5

Wine and cheese reception to follow dialogue with audience at the end of the presentation.

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"My general task is to show how life, philosophy, and art can have a deeper and familial relationship to each other, without philosophy becoming shallow and the life of the philosopher becoming untruthful." — Nietzsche