Week 12 Blogging Question!

Bacchus and Ariadne (1522 - 1523 oil on canvas by Titian)

Thank you so much for an amazing final class! Your analyses in response to the blood bot's final tweet inventively and percipiently uncovered myriad Dionysian, Apollonian, religious and metaphysical elements in Titian's sixteenth-century picture.

Saint Paul the Hermit (1640 oil on canvas by Jusepe de Ribera)

As we discussed in class, Nietzsche's "inverted Platonism" can be understood to include at once a critique of Christian ascetic ideals and an affirmation --- under the auspices of Dionysus --- of the human body and human life.

Bacchus (1596 oil on canvas by Caravaggio)

Although the meaning of the "death of God" in Nietzsche's highly literary writings is complex and multifaceted, one aspect of the madman's rantings in the marketplace could be interpreted as evincing the subjective experience of anguish arising in the wake of an increasingly secular world(-view).

Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873 oil on canvas by Jan Matejko)

For your final blogging assignment, I'd like to know if there was a reading, lecture, idea, theory, thinker or image from the course which you most enjoyed engaging with, found most interesting or would like to learn more about? If you could only remember one thing from the course, what would it be? Was there an aspect of the course which particularly resonated with you and your sensibilities?

As always, if you prefer, please feel free to pose one question which arose for you in relation to this week's readings and/or lecture.

I look forward to reading your blogs!