NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FOREIGN: DIONYSOS AND TROUBADOUR ON ARTISTIC ORIGIN OF THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT

Abstract

Nietzsche’s experience of the foreign is based on the absolution from his own individuality, made possible by means of excessive self-immersion into one representation. In his philosophy, contact with a foreign explicitly identified with artistic pleasure, which assumes a complete unification with the illusion. Along with Zaratustra, the examples of illusion, originating in the foreign world, and with which Nietzsche identified himself, undoubtedly are Dionysos, tragic man and provencal troubadour. Dionysos’ name stands for a specific conceptual figure which helped Nietzsche an almost theatrical interplay between his characters, stage the continuing contemporary need for transgression, to abandon the established and stable in search of the unestablished and unstable. One of the inevitable strange alternative therapies Nietzsche's concept of joyfullness to confront »«European nihilism«. Paradoxically, one of the greatest criticism of optimism inroduces joyfulness as a decisive mark of the learned. When a medieval troubadour becomes a free spirit, the legacy of the past merges with what is yet to come, it becomes one with the key therapist of the future. The author concludes that the combination of the historical and the fictional in Nietzsche’s philosophy creates a puzzle whose solution seems more appealing and promising than anything else we have experienced and became aware of thus far.