From 1870 to 1920 several intellectuals came into prominence and formed critiques on the ways western society was conducting itself. Leading this group of intellectuals was Friedrich Nietzsche. In Nietzsche’s views he felt society had become degenerate and insipid. With the lack of modern myth there was nothing for society to live for and would soon collapse on itself. Thus, Nietzsche felt western culture was disenchanted. However, Nietzsche saw a glimmer of hope with German music that was being created at the time. Through German music, western society would become re-enchanted and bring the tragic myth back into western culture. Another important thinker of the time was Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky had similar views to Nietzsche in that society was disenchanted. Kandinsky felt the materialism society had succumbed to was trapping the soul in artificiality. There was no forward movement because there was nothing to really live for with society’s focus on artificial objects that truly do not matter. Also like Nietzsche, Kandinsky felt there was room for re-enchantment. Kandinsky felt abstract art would lead the observers inward and satisfy their inner need by causing spiritual vibrations of the soul. Thus both Nietzsche and Kandinsky were very similar in that they both felt society was disenchanted, but could become re-enchanted through art for Kandinsky and music for Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s views had elements of both disenchantment and re-enchantment. In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche represented disenchantment as the death of Greek tragedy and the tragic myth. Nietzsche wrote, “The forces of imagination and of Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate ramblings”.1 Myth frees the power of imagination and gives meaning to man’s life by bring members of society together under one identity. Nietzsche believed “The Greeks...employed