Nietzsche on Language

A Sea of Music and Words. AI art   “ What takes place, is a somewhat mysterious process by which ‘thought-sound’ evolves divisions, and a language takes shape with its linguistic units in between those two amorphous masses. One might think of it as being like air in contact with water: changes in atmospheric pressure break up the surface of the water into series of divisions, i.e. waves. The correlation between thought and sound, and the union of the two, is like that ”. F. de Saussure, CGL. Introduction “ He forgets that the original perceptual metaphors are metaphors and takes them to be the things themselves ” — On Truth and Lies in an Extra‑Moral Sense “ Language, the organ of semblance, can never disclose the pulse of music ” —The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche’s first two publications—the aesthetic treatise The Birth of Tragedy (1872) and the fragment “On Truth and Lies in an Extra‑Moral Sense” (1873)—seem, at first glance, to inhabit separate terrains: art and ...

Greek lyre and language. AI art     “Language, as the organ and symbol of phenomena, cannot at all disclose the innermost essence of music.” — The Birth of Tragedy , § 6 “Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.” — “On Truth and Lies” Introduction Between 1870 and 1873 Friedrich Nietzsche drafted two texts that, read together, outline a single, audacious theory of language. The Birth of Tragedy (BT) stages the drama mythically—music swells Dionysian chaos; Apollo chisels it into form—while “On Truth and Lies in an Extra‑Moral Sense” (OTL) [1] anatomises the same process in epistemological prose. Both insist that speech is neither transparent medium nor faithful mirror; it is an imaginative veneer that tames primordial tumult and invents a world in which “truth” can be staged. Mythic Aesthetic Genealogy ( The Birth of Tragedy ) BT roots lyric poetry in pre‑linguistic affect. Citing Schiller’s letter about a musical mood that p...