Nietzsche: The Tide of Romanticism

Year 2015, Issue: 62, 258 - 282, 15.12.2015

Erdal İsbir

Abstract

Nietzsche offers philosophy and art as a cure for struggling life.
Nietzsche’s philosophy is both as a sickness and as a cure but certainly it
is not a rational inquiry of life. The effects of romanticism on Nietzsche
must be interpreted from this romanticist point. Nietzsche expresses that
romanticism is a philosophical pessimism but also it is a power which
struggles life. Like Goethe, Nietzsche tries to escape from romanticism
because he accepts romanticism is a sickness. Nevertheless he resembles
early German romantic philosophers when he introduced his thoughts such
as “life”, “conflict of Apollo-Dionysus”, “aesthetical creativity”, “eternal
return”. His escape from romanticism is also a return to irrationality of life
which is a romantic discovery of all thinkers must be achieved who suffers
from rationality of life. As a result of this Nietzsche’s position is on tide of
romanticism.

Keywords

Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schlegel, Schiller, romanticism, life, contrast between Apollo-Dionysus, aesthetical creativity

NİETZSCHE: ROMANTİZMİN MED-CEZİRİ

Abstract

Felsefe ve sanatı, didinen yaşamın birer ilacı olarak sunan
Nietzsche’nin felsefesi, hem bir hastalık hem de bir ilaçtır ama kesinlikle
yaşımın akılcı bir sorgusu değildir. Romantizmin onun üzerindeki etkisi
de bu açıdan değerlendirilmelidir. Nietzsche’nin felsefi kötümserlik
olarak ifade ettiği romantizm, yine de yaşamı didindiren güçtür. Bu
nedenle, Goethe gibi bir hastalık olarak gördüğü romantizmden kaçmaya
çalışsa da Nietzsche, “yaşam”, “Apollon-Dionysos çatışması”, “sanatsal
yaratıcılık”, “bengi dönüş” gibi fikirlerini ortaya koyarken erken Alman
romantik düşünürleri andırmaktadır. Onun romantizmden kaçışı, yaşamın
rasyonelliğinden bunalan her düşünürün gerçekleştirmek zorunda
olduğu bir dönüştür. Bu dönüş, yaşamın irrasyonelliğinin romantik
keşfidir. İşte Nietzsche bunu ancak romantizmin kıyısında dolaşarak
gerçekleştirmektedir.

Keywords

Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Novalis, Schlegel, Schiller, romantizm, yaşa, Apollon-Dionysos çatışması, sanatsal yaratıcılık

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