By Yeats, William Butler; Bell, Vereen M.; Yeats, W. B
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16. James Sasso, The Role of Consciousness in the Thought of Nietzsche, 204; Yeats, Letters, 343. 26 YEATS AND THE LOGIC OF FORMALISM If referred to Nietzsche’s irascible obedience to the service of life, this sounds considerably less decadent than if we referred it to the otherworldly ennui of, say, Villiers de L’Isle Adam. Finding what there is of beauty in all things would be understood by Nietzsche as a worthy project, an affirmation of life and a rejection of the counsel of nihilism that he considered to have infected the whole spirit of Europe.
He can never be unaware of the baseness of the material with which he works. 15 There are many value problems associated with aesthetic ideology in any form, from both a Kierkegaardian and a cultural-materialistic point of view. ) But aesthetic pragmatism as a means of appropriating an individual’s life has at the very least the merit of being monistic and therefore of avoiding the ressentiment, as Zarathustra calls it, and the self-estrangement that dualistic value systems promote. It has the merit as well of grounding value in the experience of life as it is lived and of addressing specifically “human problems .
8. W. B. Yeats, The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, 1:325 (hereinafter, the Oxford edition of Yeats’s letters will be referred to as Collected Letters); Yeats, Explorations, 254. 20 YEATS AND THE LOGIC OF FORMALISM “Hammer your thoughts into unity,” one spirit had told him (secondhand through Dante). When he came to do the work of creating value in his poems, the world for him became demystified. The supernatural in the poems became metaphorical rather than real, and in this new metaphysical environment the issues engaged become more accessible to skeptic and believer alike.