This work contains the author's disagreement with Schlegel over Schlegel's notion of the "ideal spectator.
This work contains the author's disagreement with Schlegel over Schlegel's notion of the "ideal spectator." In the foreword the author warns the reader to avoid the temptation to see this work as a comparison between "gay dilletantism" and "gallant earnestness" and goes on for 15 chapters before discussing the modern ramifications of his ideas. Its first half contrasts the appearance, or illusion, to suffering, or reality, and goes on to claim that music is superior to all other arts because it represents the "world will" itself. FTP, name this work that claims that art is derived from a conjunction of the Apollonian and Dionysian worldviews, an 1871 text by Friedrich Nietszche.
This work contains the author's disagreement with Schlegel over Schlegel's notion of the "ideal spectator.
The {Birth of Tragedy}