ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on six artist-philosophers: two philosophers, two novelists, and two visual artists. It begins with Nietzsche, if only because it is Nietzsche who explicitly proclaims himself an artist-philosopher. The book looks at Goethe, who gives rise to what Holderlin will call "New Philosophy" and to what Nietzsche will name as the artist-philosopher. It contains philosophical question of time as psychoanalytically re-formulated in two visual artists, Cindy Sherman and Paul Cezanne. The book presents artist-philosopher within the larger concerns of New Philosophy. It examines Heidegger's Calling, the Protestant notion of "a calling" as it applies to Western Metaphysics and more particularly as it applies to bourgeois aesthetics and modernist art. The book touches on the practical necessities upon which any future depends.
