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On the Necessity of Violation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Jean-Jacques Lebel
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We must also be capable of setting ourselves above morality; not with the uneasy rigidity of the man who constantly fears to lose his footing and fall, but with the practised ease of one who can float, disport himself above it! And how should we achieve this without art, without the madman's aid? … And as long as you are in any way ashamed of yourself, you cannot possibly be of our number.

Nietzsche (Die Fröbliche Wissenschaft)

The middle-class hero, product of Western culture, still dreams of seeing his moral sense triumphant over all rebellions. This mediocrity has a bête noire—free art. He thinks that he, personally, is being attacked by the transformations which young artists claim to be bringing into his life as well as to their own.

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Research Article
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The Drama Review , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Fall 1968 , pp. 89 - 105
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Copyright © 1968 The Drama Review

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