Jim’s Death Between Dionyssiac and Apolynic Cover Image

Moartea lui Jim între apolinic și dionisiac
Jim’s Death Between Dionyssiac and Apolynic

Author(s): Nicolae Goje
Subject(s): Philosophy, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Poetry, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Book-Review
Published by: SACRI – Societatea Academica de Cercetare a Religiilor si Ideologiilor
Keywords: philosophy;pop culture;music;Jim Morrisson;Cristian Ciceu;

Summary/Abstract: This review follows Cristian Ciceu’s reflections on the theme of death in the context of Jim Morrison’s poetry. The author presents death as a finality, an aspect that imposes itself directly and finds paradoxical expressions in the rock star’s lyrics. Morrison’s poetics is infused with the theme of death which appears in different aspects: violence, apathy; but it appears in positive aspects also: sexuality and creativity. The author emphasizes the rapport between the poet and death, finding that death would cancel the contact with matter, a thing that is most important for a Dionysian personality. Salvation appears in a paradoxical form, the irreversibility of time implies at the same time the immutability of the past.

  • Issue Year: 2/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 118-123
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian