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The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN: 9780140433395 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 160 PUBLICATION DATE: 27.05.1993 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX9mm 123grams

DESCRIPTION: Dedicated to Richard Wagner, this book is rich in Nietzsche's 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 distinction between the Apollonian and the Dionysian spirit, Nietzsche presses the reader to consider why it is that we derive pleasure from tragic art, and what is the relationship between our experience of suffering in life and in art. "The Birth of Tragedy", first published in 1871, was the author's first book.

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