{FEUER} The Art-work, thus conceived as an immediate vital act, is therewith the perfect reconcilement of Science with Life, the laurel-wreath which the vanquished, redeemed by her defeat, reaches in joyous homage to her acknowledged victor. [418W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 72-73]
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[P. 73] {FEUER} The redemption of Thought and Science and their transmutation in Artwork would be impossible, could Life [P. 74] itself be made dependent upon scientific speculation. Could conscious autocratic Thought completely govern Life, could it usurp the vital impulse and divert it to some other purpose than the great Necessity of absolute life-needs: then were Life itself dethroned, and swallowed up in Science. (…)
{anti-FEUER} The great instinctive errors of the People – which found their earliest utterance in Religion, and then became the starting points of arbitrary speculation and system-making, in Theology and Philosophy – have reared themselves, in these Sciences and their coadjutrix and adopted sister, Statecraft, to powers which make no less a claim than to govern and ordain the world and life by virtue of their innate and divine infallibility. Irrevocably, then, would Error reign in destructive triumph throughout eternity: did not the same life-force which blindly bore it, once more effectually annihilate it, by virtue of its innate, natural Necessity; and that so decisively and palpably, that Intellect, with all its arrogant divorce from Life, can see at last no other refuge from actual insanity, than in the unconditional acknowledgment of this only definite and visible force. And this vital force is – the Folk (das Volk).
[P. 75] {FEUER} The ‘Folk’ is the epitome of all those men who feel a common and collective Want (‘gemeinschaftliche Noth’).” [419W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 73-75]
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[P. 76] {FEUER} “ … where Caprice is king, there blossoms every vice, and every criminal assault on Nature.” [420W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 76]
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[P. 76] {Pre-SCHOP} {FEUER} “ Luxury is as heartless, inhuman, insatiable, and egoistic as the ‘need’ which called it forth, but which, with all its heaping-up and overreaching, it never more can still. For this need itself is no natural and thereforesatisfiable one; by very reason that, being false, it has no true, essential antithesis in which it may be spent, consumed, and satisfied. (…) … it racks, devours, torments and burns, without an instant’s stilling; it leaves brain, heart and sense for ever vainly searching, and swallows up all gladness, mirth, and joy of life. For sake of one sole, and yet unreachable moment of refreshment, it squanders the toil and life-sweat of a thousand needy wanters; it lives upon the unstilled hunger of a thousand poor, though impotent to satiate its own for but the twinkling of an eye; it holds a whole world within the iron chains of despotism, without the power to momentarily break the golden chains of that arch-tyrant which it is unto itself.{FEUER} And this fiend, this crack-brained need-without-a-need, this need of
