The Birth of Tragedy - Out of the Spirit of Music (Paperback, Revised)

The Birth of Tragedy created a furore on its first publication in 1871; it has since become one of the seminal books of European culture. Dedicated to Richard Wagner, The Birth of Tragedy is rich in Nietzsche's current enthusiasms for Greek literature and especially tragedy, for Schopenhauer and Wagner's Tristan Und Isolde. Its central vision is the idea that 'only as an aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world justified'. Making his celebrated distinction between the Apollonian and the Dionysian spirit, Nietzsche presses us to consider why it is that we derive pleasure from tragic art, and what is the relationship between our experiences of suffering in life and in art. The Birth of Tragedy was his first book. Occasionally flawed and impetuous in argument, it is none the less a triumph of passionate energy and insight.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1993
First published:	1994
Authors:	Friedrich Nietzsche
Editors:	Michael Tanner
Translators:	Shaun Whiteside
Dimensions:	196 x 127 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	120
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-043339-5
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	0-14-043339-2
Barcode:	9780140433395

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