Name: The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Whiteside, Shaun ; Tanner, Michael
ISBN: 9780140433395

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The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (Penguin Classics)

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Physical Book

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Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.2 x 13.4 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN

0140433392

ISBN13

9780140433395

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Synopsis "The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (Penguin Classics) "

The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Victorian era, and it analyzed themes developed in the twentieth century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts, and others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844-Weimar, August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, musician, and philologist, whose work has had a profound influence on contemporary global thought and Western culture.
Nietzsche wrote on topics as diverse as art, philology, music, history, religion, science, and tragedy. He critiqued culture, religion, and Western philosophy through the genealogy of the concepts that integrate them, based on the analysis of moral attitudes (positive and negative) towards life.
It is particularly notable the influence exerted on Nietzsche by the also German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whom he considered his teacher, although he did not follow Schopenhauer's ideas dogmatically, and in many aspects, he diverged from his thought, even making a radical critique of his philosophical ideas.

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