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The Birth of Tragedy : Out of the Spirit of Music
by Nietzsche, Friedrich
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780140433395
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About This Item
Penguin Publishing Group, 1994, 1994. Soft cover. As New. Octavo, softcover, fine in blue decorative wraps. 117 pp. plus notes. 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.
Synopsis
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
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140433392
- ISBN 13
- 9780140433395
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, 1994
- Place of Publication
- Gb
- Date Published
- 1994
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