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Autore |
Meis Morgan |
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The drunken silenus : on Gods, goats, and the cracks in reality / / Morgan Meis |
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Seattle, WA : , : Slant Books, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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9781639820566 |
9781639820542 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (115 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- 1. Rubens discovers Titian, who had already discovered Silenus . . . but who is Silenus? -- 2. The forgotten city of Antwerp and some speculation as to why Rubens felt at home there. Perhaps it all has to do with a lingering melancholy. -- 3. King Midas's dilemma and the disappointing nature of Silenus's so-called wisdom. What if wisdom isn't what we think it is? -- 4. Thinking about Silenus leads unavoidably to thinking about Nietzsche, which, unexpectedly, links an artist and a philosopher not otherwise often linked. Is this mere coincidence? -- 5. We sometimes think of Greek Tragedy as a refined affair, but it had its origins in a nasty, bawdy business. -- 6. Is God a goat? What could that possibly mean? -- 7. Older Nietzsche upbraids Younger Nietzsche for not being crazy enough. That's to say, Nietzsche goes all in on being Nietzsche and then goes to war. -- 8. All of history is connected and it is connected primarily through war. And then, hidden within this history, is another story, a story of peace, which is for broken people and losers. Also, you don't fuck with William the Silent. -- 9. Civilization has its limits. We fear those limits. We also seek those limits. -- 10. Nietzsche, the brilliant loner who would make a virtue and power and weapon of his loneliness, dreams of Silenus while masturbating. -- 11. Jan Rubens experiences passion as love and love as death, which can make us wonder whether love is always in some core way connected to death. |
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And beyond that, love and death are sometimes overseen by a strange power we might call historical grace. -- 12. All cities hide their horror. Civilization itself can be seen as the ongoing strenuous effort to conceal shame. -- 13. In which the truth of strength is found in weakness, the truth of heroism in surrender. |
14. The conundrum and unsolvable mystery of Maria Rubens and her pen. The desire that hides behind desire. -- 15. The hardness of Silenus transforms into pity, the pity of Silenus and the pity for Silenus. Nietzsche is not amused. -- 16. There is something special and different about the gods who die. Or, to put it another way, a true god must die. -- 17. The lessons of Jan Rubens are the lessons that can only be passed down in silence. -- 18. The silence of Jan Rubens is connected by actual, material, long-running historical threads to the silence of The Sea Peoples. -- 19. There is a great and nameless wisdom to be found in the murky space between life and death, the space from which silence speaks. -- 20. If Jan Rubens came to know anything, he came to know the threshold. And his son saw the threshold in him and wanted to know the threshold too. -- 21. A painter comes to know the cracks in reality. -- 22. The truth of all art is, ultimately, the truth of finitude, or the truth of passing away, a passing truth. Or something like that. -- 23. Silenus, the deathless one who yearns for death, is thus the truth of all art. It's just funny that this truth comes in the form of a drunken fat man. -- 24. The truth of finitude must itself be finite, subject to obliteration. -- 25. Weltschmerz. -- Further Reading -- Appendix. |
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