{"id":1651,"date":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2006\/01\/12\/hendrix-hippies-and-humanism-an-analysis-of-the-realisation-of-postmodern-aesthetic-and-ethical-values-within-western-culture-during-the-1960s\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"hendrix-hippies-and-humanism-an-analysis-of-the-realisation-of-postmodern-aesthetic-and-ethical-values-within-western-culture-during-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2006\/01\/12\/hendrix-hippies-and-humanism-an-analysis-of-the-realisation-of-postmodern-aesthetic-and-ethical-values-within-western-culture-during-the-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrix, Hippies and Humanism: an Analysis of the Realisation of Postmodern Aesthetic and Ethical Values within Western Culture during the 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: The Jimi Hendrix song Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). Aims and Objective: To analyse 1960\u2019s culture and counterculture movements in terms of their aesthetical and ethical values with reference to Nietzsche\u2019s philosophies. I intend to demonstrate that with the aid of music and the arts people at this time began to turn away from traditional pre-war values and began to experiment with more subjective, postmodern views of the world and humanity\u2019s relation to it. Concepts: The underlying concept of my project is: \u2018Ethical redemption through the means of aesthetical values\u2019; this is closely related to Nietzsche\u2019s conception of art as being \u2018the highest dignity of mankind\u2019. I am also investigating the concept of \u2018slave and master moralities\u2019 as theorised by Nietzsche to analyse the shift away from pre-war traditional values (for example, Christian doctrines) towards a more individual style of ethics, as can be witnessed in hippy communes and in relation to the civil rights movements and the sexual revolution. The \u2018will to power\u2019 in relation to these concepts will be the basis of my conclusion as to what extent this era can be said to be one of the defining periods of the shift of humanity towards post-modernism, especially within western culture and society. Sources: I will reference a wide variety of sources both on the structure of 1960\u2019s culture and on Nietzsche\u2019s philosophy as well as on post-modern philosophy. My main texts, however, will be: \u2022 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, \u2022 Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, \u2022 David Henderson, \u2018Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix, \u2022 John Morton Blum, Years of Discord. American Politics and Society, 1961-1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Milne, 2006, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,22,128],"tags":[97,6,157],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-461","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-music","tag-nietzsche","tag-postmodernism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}