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The Birth of Tragedy

By Friedrich Nietzsche

Orchestra Books · 1967

Nietzsche interprets ancient Greek tragedy through the tension between Apollonian form and Dionysian intensity.

Publisher: Orchestra Books
Publication date: 1967
Language: English
Print length: 240

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Nietzsche interprets ancient Greek tragedy through the tension between Apollonian form and Dionysian intensity. Drawing on myth, music and Schopenhauer, he asks how the Greeks transformed the experience of suffering into artistic affirmation. His early book also reflects a formative enthusiasm for Wagner and the promise of a modern renewal of tragedy.