ABSTRACT
In July 1876 Friedrich Nietzsche began working on a manuscript of aphorisms, later published in 1878 as the first part of Human, All Too Human; the other two parts, Opinions and Maxims and The Wanderer and his Shadow, appeared in 1879 and 1880, respectively. Nietzsche published all three parts together in 1886 as Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Whilst music in earlier writings had a more fundamental role than literature, Nietzsche's perspective changes with Human, All Too Human, where the themes of literature and language become more significant. Nietzsche formulated an antithetical concept to the language of symbols in his fragment On Music and Words. In the aphorism 'Religious after-effects' Nietzsche considers the relation between music and religion and its meaning for society. Nietzsche sees society as an active participant in art. Nietzsche generally presents an opposition between two heterogeneous realms or powers: art (music, literature, and the plastic arts) versus science.
