ABSTRACT
Nietzsche's enthusiasm for art in The Birth of Tragedy (henceforth "BT") was so great that further reflection could only have tempered it—as it in fact did. The Nietzsche of the subsequently attached "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" is no longer the ardent "art-deifier" he sees himself as having been in BT. This chapter considers some of the more significant respects in which Nietzsche altered his assessment of art and artists, and develops some of the main points he makes in his many discussions of them subsequent to BT. The "grand style," as Nietzsche understands it, relates to a combination of elements, among which are the greatest strength, the strictest discipline, and the highest cultivation. Nietzsche proposes that art is fundamentally to be conceived and assessed with reference to the larger question of its significance for the preservation, flourishing and "enhancement" of human life.
