Interesting topic, Arlo. Just for starters, here's Wiki's neat summary of the
main idea:
"...there was an age where tragedy died. Nietzsche ties this to the influence
of writers like Euripides and the coming of rationality, represented by
Socrates. Euripides reduced the use of the chorus and was more naturalistic in
his representation of human drama, making it more reflective of the realities
of daily life. Socrates emphasized reason to such a degree that he diffused the
value of myth and suffering to human knowledge. For Nietzsche, these two
intellectuals helped drain the ability of the individual to participate in
forms of art, because they saw things too soberly and rationally. The
participation mystique aspect of art and myth was lost, and along with it, much
of man's ability to live creatively in optimistic harmony with the sufferings
of life. Nietzsche concludes that it may be possible to reattain the balance of
Dionysian and Apollonian in modern art..."
Later,
dmb
"Under the charm of the Dionysian not only is the union between man and man
reaffirmed, but Nature which has become estranged, hostile or subjugated,
celebrates once more her reconciliation with her prodigical son, man. ... Now
the slave is free; now all the stubborn, hostile barriers, which necessity,
caprice or 'shameless fashion' have erected between man and man, are broken
down... he feels as if the veil of Maya had been torn aside and were now merely
fluttering in tatters before the mysterious Primordial Unity." (Nietzsche)
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