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Apollonian

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Apollonian

Relating to the individuating, rationalizing, and conscious principle in human society. The term was used by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In The Birth of Tragedy (1872), his study of the origins of ancient Greek drama, Nietzsche contrasted the Apollonian principle with the Dionysiac, which he saw as collective, irrational, and lyrical.



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The catalogue helpfully explains that the Ursonate "opens a psychic space in which the Dionysian and Apollonian intertwine.
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Trapped in a historical time that offered no other form of self-transcendence, he experienced the Apollonian gift of healing in the aesthetic enjoyment of supreme lightness.
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Zero Hero, in any case, avoids the more Apollonian version of chaos--the containment--of much of the art in the Arsenale.
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