Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

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-\ IRichard Wagner in Bayreuthbecome a power in its own right which now embraces mankind withghostly arms and impels it to where it does not really want to go. Assoon as men seek to come to an understanding with one another,and to unite for a common work, they are seized by the madness ofuniversal concepts, indeed even by the mere sounds of words, and,as a consequence of this incapacity to communicate, everything theydo together bears the mark of this lack of mutual understanding,inasmuch as it does not correspond to their real needs but only tothe hollowness of those tyrannical words and concepts: thus to all itsother sufferings mankind adds suffering from convention, that is to sayfrom a mutual agreement as to words and actions without a mutualagreement as to feelings. Just as when every art goes into decline apoint is reached at which its morbidly luxuriant forms and techniquesgain a tyrannical domination over the souls of youthful artistsand make them their slaves, so with the decline of language we arethe slaves of words; under this constraint no one is any longer capableof revealing himself, of speaking naively, and few are capable of preservingtheir individuality at all in the face of an education whichbelieves it demonstrates its success, not in going out to meet clearneeds and feelings in an educative sense, but in entangling theindividual in the net of 'clear concepts' and teaching him to thinkcorrectly: as if there were any sense whatever in making of a man abeing who thinks · and concludes correctly if one has not first succeededin making of him one who feels rightly. Now when the musicof our German masters resounds in the ears of mankind injured tothis extent, what is it really that here becomes audible? Precisely thisright feeling, the enemy of all convention, all artificial alienation andincomprehension between man and man: this music is a return tonature, while being at the same time the purification and transformationof nature; for the pressing need for that return to nature arosein the souls of men filled with love, and in their art there sounds naturetransformed· in love:Let us take this to be one of Wagner' s answers to the question s towhat music signifies in our time: he also has a second. Therelationship between music and life is not only that of one kind oflanguage to another kind of language, it is also the relationship betweenthe perfect world of sound and the totality of the world ofsight. Regarded as a phenomenon for the eyes, however, and comparedwith the phenomena of life of earlier times, the existence ofmodern men exhibits an unspeakable poverty and exhaustion, despitethe unspeakable gaudiness which can give pleasure only to the215
Untimely Meditationsmost superficial glance. If one looks a little more closely andanalyses the impression made by this vigorously agitated play ofcolours, does the whole not appear as the glitter and sparkle ofcountless little stones and fragments borrowed from earlier cultures?Is everything here not inappropriate pomp, imitated activity,presumptuous superficiality? A suit of gaudy patches for the nakedand freezing? A dance of seemingjoy exacted from sufferers? An airof haughty pride worn by one wounded to the depths? And amid itall, concealed and dissembled only by the rapidity of the movementand confusionhoary impotence, nagging discontent, industriousboredom, dishonourable wretchedness! The phenomenon of modernman has become wholly appearance; he is not visible in what herepresents but rather concealed by it; and the remnant of artisticinventiveness retained by a nation, by the French and Italians forinstance, is employed in this art of concealment. Wherever 'form' isnowadays demanded, in society and in conversation, in literaryexpression, in traffic between states, what is involuntarily understoodby it is a pleasing appearance, the antidlesis of the true concept ofform as shape necessitated by content, which has nothing to do with'pleasing' or 'displeasing' precisely because it is necessary and notarbitrary. But even in civilized nations where this form is notexpressly demanded, that necessary shape which is true form is justas little in evidence: it is only that the striving after a pleasingappearance has been less successful, even though pursued with atleast as much zeal. For how pleasing the appearance is, in the one caseor the other, and why it must be agreeable to everyone that modemman at least makes an effort at an appearance, each will decide to thedegree to which he himself is a modern man. 'Only galley-slavesunderstand one another', says Tasso, 'but we politely misunderstandothers so that they shall misunderstand us in return.' *In this world of forms and desired misunderstanding there nowappear souls filled with music - to what purpose? In noble honesty,in a passion that is suprapersonal, they move to a grand, free rhythm,they glow with the mighty tranquil fire of the music that wells upout of inexhaustible depths within them - all this to what purpose?Through these souls music reaches out to its correspondingnecessary shape in the world of the visible, that is to say, to itslOIn Goethe's Torquato Tasso, Act 5 Scene 5 (the italicizing of 'misunderstand' isNietzsche's).216
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