The Birth of Tragedy (Complete Works)
The Birth of Tragedy, first Nietzsche's books. It was republished in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism. An Attempt at Self-Criticism, wherein Nietzsche commented on this very early work. In this book Nietzsche characterizes the conflict between two distinct tendencies -...
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The Birth of Tragedy, first Nietzsche's books. It was republished in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism. An Attempt at Self-Criticism, wherein Nietzsche commented on this very early work. In this book Nietzsche characterizes the conflict between two distinct tendencies - the Apollonian and Dionysian. Nietzsche describes in this book how from Socrates onward the Apollonian had dominated Western thought, and raises German Romanticism as a possible reintroduction of the Dionysian to the salvation of European culture...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594625855 (1594625859)
Publish date: April 3rd 2007
Publisher: Book Jungle
Pages no: 236
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
German Literature,
Music,
Theory
Nietzsche is really speaking about the death of tragedy not its birth. He really doesn't like humanism in any of its variations. He says that it's our experiences which give us our understanding (a very Husserlian Phenomenological thing to say). The instinct, emotion, passion, the mysticism withi...
S5: .... we know the subjective artist only as the poor artist, and throughout the entire range of art we demand first of all the conquest of the subjective, redemption from the “ego,” and the silencing of the individual will and desire. Indeed, we find it impossible to believe in any truly artist...
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy In Helen Morales' introduction to Tim Whitmarsh's fine new translation of Leucippe and Clitophon , http://leopard.booklikes.com/post/532655/postwritten by the Alexandrian Greek Achilles Tatius in the 2nd century CE, she mentions that Nietzsche condemned t...
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 by Friedrich Nietzsche, W.M.A. Hausmann, now listed on BookLikes)