Nietzsche as Masked Romantic

Prepared by:Dr. Kay Picart

Associate Professor of Humanities & EnglishCourtesy Associate Professor of Law

Guide Question

• Why does it seem strange to call Nietzsche a Romantic?

Guide Questions

• What is Romanticism?

• Is Romanticism a monolithic thing?

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• What characteristics of the lighter type of Romanticism are displayed in the Friedrich’s Cross in the Mountains?

Guide Questions• What are the

affinities between Friedrich’s painting style and Nietzsche’s writing style?

• Are there any similarities between the two in terms of themes? (Ubermensch)

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• What characteristics of the darker/more pessimistic form of Romanticism does Delacroix’s The Massacre at Chios?

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• How does Delacroix’s “scumbling” resemble Nietzsche’s aphoristic writing style in his later writings?

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• Thematically, how does Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalus parallel post-Zarathustran (1886 onwards) writings?