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This chapter critiques Western cultural structures—religion, science, utopia—as offering illusory redemption. Art, in contrast, confronts meaninglessness without denial, generating authenticity and solace through aesthetic experience. Nietzsche values the childlike artist who dwells in raw perception and impulse, challenging societal order and idealization. The artist creates not to redeem reality but to reinterpret it, forming a new aesthetic paradigm where art and life merge as expressions of perspective. Artistic creation becomes a way to affirm existence, rejecting transcendental goals in favor of embodied, lived, and interpreted truths.

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Art as a Response to False Redemptions

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    2025年

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  • Eitan Machter

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This chapter critiques Western cultural structures—religion, science, utopia—as offering illusory redemption. Art, in contrast, confronts meaninglessness without denial, generating authenticity and solace through aesthetic experience. Nietzsche values the childlike artist who dwells in raw perception and impulse, challenging societal order and idealization. The artist creates not to redeem reality but to reinterpret it, forming a new aesthetic paradigm where art and life merge as expressions of perspective. Artistic creation becomes a way to affirm existence, rejecting transcendental goals in favor of embodied, lived, and interpreted truths.