A prolific author, he wrote extensively on a broad range of subjects, such as authenticity and death, moral philosophy and existentialism, theism and atheism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as philosophy and literature. The later edition contained a prefatory essay, … Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down … It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the … The Birth of Tragedy.
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The Birth of Tragedy and millions of other books are available for instant access. The tone of the text is inspirational. He did not only proclaim, first in The Gay Science and then in Zarathustra, that "God is dead"; in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, we read: Greek tragedy met an end different from her older sister-arts: she died by suicide, in consequence of an … tragedy Earliest Nietzsche is oft times overlooked for a variety of reasons, some of which could be the lack of dynamic style, limited scope, only just … The last ten chapters use the Greek model to understand the state of modern culture, both its decline and its possible rebirth.
Please login to your account first; Need help? Birth of Tragedy. If one has order, one has chaos, if one is in order, one is in chaos, Nietzsche expands on these themes in "Beyond Good and Evil. Follow Us On Social Media:. Berlin Band 1, Herausgegeben von Karl Schlechta. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt. Well into a second century of influence, the profundity of his ideas and the complexity of his writings still determine Nietzsche's power to engage his readers.
His first book, "The Birth of Tragedy", presents us with a lively inquiry into the existential meaning of Greek tragedy. We are confronted with the idea that the awful truth of our existence can be revealed through tragic art, whereby our relationship to the world transfigures from pessimistic despair into sublime elation and affirmation.
It is a landmark text in his oeuvre and remains an important book both for newcomers to Nietzsche and those wishing to enrich their appreciation of his mature writings.
Each chapter examines part of the text, explaining the ideas presented and assessing relevant scholarly points of interpretation. The book will be an invaluable guide to readers in Philosophy, Literary Studies and Classics coming to "The Birth of Tragedy" for the first time. Nietzsche believed that in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world.
Friedrich Nietzsche — was a German philosopher, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions.
Those who escape the cave are at first jarred, it is painful for them to look upon such brightness. But soon their eyes adjust, and they grow accustomed to the true world above. Recall that Nietzsche used this metaphor of dreaming, but instead of contrasting it with waking, he elected to use intoxication as its opposition.
At first blush, such distinction seems inadequate, traditional conceptions of intoxication and dream portray the two as too similar to oppose one another. But this is a modernist view, and, in a deliberate and genius riposte, that final complaint is the very focus of Nietzsche's reordering of this distinction. It is exactly his point that there exists no objective reality, no true form, upon which to base all of existence. To illustrate the necessity of these illusions, Nietzsche employs the story of Silenus, in which King Midas captures the wise daemon and asks him what is best for humans.
What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. Excess revealed itself as truth. Contradiction, the bliss born of pain, spoke out from the very heart of nature. From the interaction of these two opposed forces, tragedy was born. Dionysus never ceased to be the tragic hero… All the celebrated figures of the Greek stage—Prometheus, Oedipus, etc. Were tragedy a purely Dionysian endeavor, those who viewed it would fall to the wisdom of Silenus, they would be paralyzed with nausea, with despair, as action relies upon the comfort of illusions.
The latter two poets, whose tragedies embody that transfiguring ideal, were opposed in style and in goal by Euripides and Socrates. A seductive fortitude with the keenest of glances, which yearns for the terrible, as for the enemy, the worthy enemy, with whom it may try its strength?
What means tragic myth to the Greeks of the best, strongest, bravest era? And the prodigious phenomenon of the Dionysian? And that which was born thereof, tragedy? And the "Hellenic cheerfulness" of the later Hellenism merely a glowing sunset?
The Epicurean will counter to pessimism merely a precaution of the sufferer? And science itself, our science—ay, viewed as a symptom of life, what really signifies all science? Whither, worse still, whence —all science?
Is scientism perhaps only fear and evasion of pessimism? A subtle defence against— truth! Morally speaking, something like falsehood and cowardice? And, unmorally speaking, an artifice? O Socrates, Socrates, was this perhaps thy secret?
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