Abstract:
this article aims at analyzing the relationship between art and life within Nietzsche's thought in the light of two statements, which have been made in The Birth of Tragedy and in The Gay Science respectively. The first assertion provides us a starting point for the idea that only as an aesthetic phenomenon is life justified, showing why the relationship between Apollonian and Dionysian, as well as between natural and artistic impulses, overcomes the problems of existence. The second assertion leads us to a double comprehension of the relation between life and art: the art of presenting ourselves artistically to ourselves and the art of becoming what one already is.
Keywords:
art; life; aestethics