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Nietzsche, nihilism and tragedy
No matter the stance taken, awkward concerns persist around just how much we should put in front of ourselves.
These three articles have discussed issues around the transfer and trade of artworks. What do you think the future of art is, and how does this affect artists, platforms, dealers, galleries and museums, and others?
Given our current unbridled enthusiasm and fatalistic attitude, we won’t stop in our pursuit of more to ask questions - it seems we will only realise if oversaturation has occurred when it already has.
As production ploughs on, it is at least worth more deeply considering these issues before it’s too late.
TRAGEDY: A NIETZSCHEAN SOLUTION TO NIHILISM JOE GREENWAY (UPPER SIXTH) “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, we murderers of all murderers?” Friedrich Nietzsche Or so proclaimed Friedrich Nietzsche famously in his work The Gay Science. Predominant in Nietzsche’s work is this despair over what he sees as the decadence of modern culture.
He argues that, with the emergence of scientific rationality in the Enlightenment, religion and its morality have been ‘killed’. The universal law of God that has given so many people purpose in life has been destroyed and we are left with nihilism – the rejection of all traditional values and beliefs and the acceptance that life is meaningless. So how are we to live in such a world? How are we to reinvigorate our culture? And above all, how are we to find meaning and purpose in such a bleak existence? Rivers of ink have been spilled debating these questions, focusing primarily on Nietzsche’s later works like Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
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