We've discussed what artists Friedrich Nietzsche likes to listen to and now we have a playlist from The Pope. CNN...
Posts Tagged ‘Friedrich Nietzsche’
The crazy old softy has a Myspace page that might clue us in. He begins with, "I'm not in favor of...
Ann Althouse is peeved that the presidential press conference pre-empted American Idol, as were the wife and I. Indeed,...
We've reached Chapter 18 of Dr. N's Birth of Tragedy, which, according to reliable sources, is far enough, thank...
For where art is concerned, [Socrates] now and then had the feeling of a gap, of an emptiness, of a...
"Everything must be understandable in order to be beautiful." (From Birth of Tragedy.)
"We speak about poetry so abstractly because we all tend to be poor poets." (From Birth of Tragedy.)
"Civilization is neutralized by music in the same way light from a lamp is neutralized by daylight." (From Birth of Tragedy.)
Blogging Shostakovich and Stalin turned out to be a non-starter. There's not much there for the music listener; mostly...