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The Birth of Tragedy : Out of the Spirit of Music
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This landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, to whom the book was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between two central forces in art: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture.
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
Edited by Michael Tanner
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Penguin Classics
Product details
- Paperback | 160 pages
- 129 x 198 x 9mm | 123g
- 01 Jan 1994
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Penguin Classics
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Revised ed.
- 0140433392
- 9780140433395
- 17,982
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About Friedrich Nietzsche
Shaun Whiteside has translated widely from French, German and Italian. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is particularly interested in Wagner and Nietzsche.
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