Concept

Apollonian and Dionysian

Overview

terms representing a dichotomy/dialectic between rationality and emotion

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Apollonian and Dionysian

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Carl Jung
• Allan Bloom
• Herman Dooyeweerd

Related ideas

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Gilles Deleuze
• Passion (emotion)
• Hedonism
• Philosophy
• Western philosophy
• Friedrich Hölderlin
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann
• The Birth of Tragedy
• Greek mythology
• Postmodernism
• Camille Paglia
• Western literature
• Journal of the History of Ideas
• Zeus
• Martin Heidegger
• Reason
• Logic
• Michel Foucault
• Prudence
• Dialectic
• Apollo
• Ancient Greece
• Irrationality

Opposing perspectives

• Ruth Benedict

Place in the tradition

Part of Aesthetics.

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