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The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music Paperback - 1994

by Friedrich Nietzsche; Shaun Whiteside (Translator); Michael Tanner (Editor)


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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

Shaun Whiteside’s translations include Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and Musil’s The Confessions of Young Törless for Penguin Classics.

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  • Title The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
  • Author Friedrich Nietzsche; Shaun Whiteside (Translator); Michael Tanner (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, GB
  • Date 1994-01-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780140433395 / 0140433392
  • Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.55 x 5.29 x 0.4 in (19.18 x 13.44 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1620
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
  • Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics, Ethics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94163915
  • Dewey Decimal Code 111.85

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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that "god is dead," Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

Shaun Whiteside's translations include Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confessions of Young Trless for Penguin Classics.

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