Friedrich Nietzsche
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| Title | : | The Birth of Tragedy |
| Author | : | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | New Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 160 pages |
| Published | : | November 27th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1871) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature |
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A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism.Itemize Books Supposing The Birth of Tragedy
| Original Title: | Die Geburt der Tragödie |
| ISBN: | 0140433392 (ISBN13: 9780140433395) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Plato, Richard Wagner, Socrates (philosopher), Euripides, Homer (poet) |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 12473 Users | 435 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books The Birth of Tragedy
This book helps me understand why I don't like Socrates: his generalization about rationality and virtue is too optimistic, unartistic, and will-negating. In one word, boring. Rationality itself can never make life worth living. Disillusion, semblance, errors, deceptions, irrational impulses, all of which Socrates negate, are inseparable from life, they are what life ultimately rests on. What can theoretical knowledge possibly lead to, other than the killing of action, or the nihilisticFriedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy In Helen Morales' introduction to Tim Whitmarsh's fine new translation of Leucippe and Clitophon , http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...written by the Alexandrian Greek Achilles Tatius in the 2nd century CE, she mentions that Nietzsche condemned the ancient Greek novels as a final sign of the degeneration of Greek literary art. I had forgotten all about that, so I thumbed through Die Geburt der Tragödie to find what he said in context and was
With this one I think I'm finally getting Nietzsche, as this is an early work which introduces a number of concepts which, though he didn't continue with them in whole, he still retained their essence. The most important one is how closely tied aesthetics, ethics, and epistomology are, which prefigures many of his later stances on morals and reason. Even stronger to me this time around is his timeliness which lays testimony to his astute historical sense. The institutions of art at the time were
An examination of the origins and essence of Greek tragedy as the duality of two interwoven artistic impulses: Apollonian versus Dionysian.Apollonian: represents apotheosis of individuationDionysian: represents agonies of individuationVery yin-yang-y. Overly simplistic. Sophisticated versus primal. Good versus evil. Pure versus impure. Rational versus irrational. Cerebral versus emotional.Inaccessible, excessively wordy. Needless repetition of ideas.
With this one I think I'm finally getting Nietzsche, as this is an early work which introduces a number of concepts which, though he didn't continue with them in whole, he still retained their essence. The most important one is how closely tied aesthetics, ethics, and epistomology are, which prefigures many of his later stances on morals and reason. Even stronger to me this time around is his timeliness which lays testimony to his astute historical sense. The institutions of art at the time were
With his vivid, passionate language, 19th century German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche wrote his books as a way to pry open a space in a readers psyche, a space empowering an individual to embark on a journey of inner exploration. This is precisely why I think any attempt, no matter how well intended, to rephrase, paraphrase or synopsize Nietzsche, without including a fair amount of Nietzsches actual words, is a terrible injustice committed against one of the greatest literary stylists in the
Apollo Vs Dionysus: A Darwinian DramaNietzsche never struck me as a real philosopher. He was too much the story-teller.This is probably his most a-philosophical (?) work. But it is my favorite. It was the most accessible to me and it was the most relevant of his works. It helped me form my own convictions. It was universal and yet not choke full of platitudes. It was forceful but not descending into loud (almost incomprehensible) invectives. (you know which works I subtly allude to)'Birth of
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