Mallebrein, Cornelia / Beltz, Johannes: Elefanten, schaukelnde Götter und Tänzer in Trance. 2012 (original) (raw)

Das Gewissen des Tänzers. Seele, Leben, Weisheit, Wahrheit, Ewigkeit, Liebe und Tod in und um Zarathustras anderes Tanzlied (2016)

Nietzsche-Studien 45, 2016

Abstract: Critically discussing the two most recently in Nietzsche-Studien published articles on The Other Dance-Song by Werner Stegmaier (2013) and Gabriel Zamosc (2015), the article is developing an alternative reading, that is taking the broader context of the Song at the end of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which circularly leads back to the beginning as starting point and examines the three parts of the song anew, first in relation to The Dance-Song in part two, secondly to the conscience as the paradox knowledge that nobody knows under the perspective of Life, which reminds Zarathustra of his promise to die of a free and self-determined death at the proper time, as well as of his experience of Eternal Return, alluded to in the third part of the song and explicitly mentioned in the following Yea- and Amen-Song. Not only the Soul and Life but also Wisdom, Truth and Eternity are understood in this context as personified women, whom Zarathustra loves despite the tensions between them. Wisdom as well as the “lyre-song” of Zarathustra’s animals is newly considered. Eternity as the only woman to whom he wants to be married to in the nuptial “ring of eternal return” and from whom he wants children in the concluding Yea- and Amen-song, brings a circle whose middle is everywhere to an end and leads as well back to the beginning of the story with its teaching of the overhuman as the ‘child of eternity’ Zarathustra is longing for, as it points forward to the end of Part IV. I conclude with an answer to the question who Nietzsche’s Zarathustra might be.

»Trance!« Thomas Manns Okkulte Erlebnisse

2014

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Genie und Wahnsinn. Ka und Heka in der pharaonischen Ästhetik, in: Anke Ilona Blöbaum, Marianne Eaton-Krauss u. Annik Wüthrich (Hg.), Pérégrinations avec Erhard Graefe. Festschrift zu seinem 75. Geburtstag, ÄAT 87, Münster 2018, 161-179

Anke Ilona Blöbaum, Marianne Eaton-Krauss u. Annik Wüthrich (Hg.), Pérégrinations avec Erhard Graefe. Festschrift zu seinem 75. Geburtstag, ÄAT 87, 2018

Ka and Heka are words which are primarily attested in religious contexts. Nonetheless, some attestations occur in texts relating to artistic abilities. Two such attestations are discussed: the formula jn kA n from the colophon in the Teachings of Cheti (Satire on Trades) and the mentioning of HkA on the stela of Irtisen (Louvre C 14). It is proposed that in pharaonic aesthetics Ka could be translated as genius and Heka as talent.