>"We will have achieved much for the discipline of aesthetics when we have arrived not only at the logical insight but also at the immediate certainty of the view that the continuing development of art is tied to the duality of the Apollonian and the Dionysian: * just as procreation depends on the duality of the sexes, which are engaged in a continual struggle interrupted only by temporary periods of reconciliation"Birth of Tragedy, chapter oneSo, what we are living now between us and women are just one of these cycles and we are unlucky enough to be live during one of these periods of struggle?
>>24686107This really shouldn't be interpreted as referring to a cyclical view of history. Later writings (especially "Ecce Homo") make it clear he considered this struggle between the sexes to be the natural state.There is no period in which "gender relations" are harmonious.I think he meant it in a positive way because in his writings struggle perfects existence but I find his thoughts on women and sexual relations so obscure that I cannot be sure.
>>24686155>I think he meant it in a positive wayhe does, it's the principle of agon he took from the greeks, a fruitful polarity
