Assuming that rapture is nature’s play with man, the Dionysian artist’s creative activity is the play with rapture.
ATTRIBUTION:
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 1, p. 555, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). “The Dionysian Worldview,” part 1 (1871).
An unpublished manuscript containing material later used in The Birth of Tragedy.
