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The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering... Read Full Overview

The Birth of Tragedy itself is structured around an explanation of the rise of literature in Greek culture. The artistic impulse first manifests itself with the invention of the pantheon of Olympic gods, then with the parallel creations of the Apollonian epic and Dionysian lyric... Read Full Overview

Frederick Nietzsche was born at R cken near Lützen, in the Prussian province of Saxony, on the 15th of October 1844, at 10 a.m. The day happened to be the anniversary of the birth of Frederick- William IV., then King of Prussia. (...) Science, art, and philosophy developed... Read Full Overview

Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy describes the origins and essence of Greek tragedy, offering a unique lens through which to understand the complex interplay of art, culture, and psychology. Nietzsche introduces the contrasting concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian as fundamental...

Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy describes the origins and essence of Greek tragedy, offering a unique lens through which to understand the complex interplay of art, culture, and psychology. Nietzsche introduces the contrasting concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian as fundamental...

Among the most influential philosophers of modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) declared in this classic study that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational... Read Full Overview

Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life. This landmark work of criticism is fueled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, to whom the book was... Read Full Overview

EL NACIMIENTO DE LA TRAGEDIA: Nietzsche explora la dicotomía entre los elementos apolíneos (orden, belleza, lógica) y dionisíacos (caos, éxtasis, emociones) en el arte, especialmente en la tragedia griega. Argumenta que la verdadera grandeza de la tragedia antigua yace en su... Read Full Overview

""The Birth of Tragedy"" is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche that explores the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to contemporary culture. The book is divided into two parts, with the first part examining the role of the Apollonian and Dionysian principles... Read Full Overview

In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, a remarkable position for one of his age. The Birth of Tragedy, published in 1872, was his first significant publication. It did little,...

In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a delicate but powerful balance between Dionysian insight into the chaos and suffering... Read Full Overview

The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism. This edition contains the prefatory essay, An Attempt at Self-Criticism,... Read Full Overview

Argues the importance of the tension between what the author called Apollonian and Dionysian forces. In this title, the author boldly combines aesthetics and psychology in a creative meditation on the sources of artistic inspiration. It also addresses the problem of nihilism... Read Full Overview

We will have achieved much for the study of aesthetics when we come, not merely to a logical understanding, but also to the immediately certain apprehension of the fact that the further development of art is bound up with the duality of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, just... Read Full Overview