Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Geuss, Ronald Speirs

Overview

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521639873
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/22/1999
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	204
Sales rank:	621,614
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 11.42(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

1. The birth of tragedy; 2. The dionysiac world view; 3. On truth and lying in a non-moral sense.

Editorial Reviews

'The main purpose of the book was to challenge nineteenth-century idealisations of classical Greece: ancient tragedy at its greatest, Nietzsche argued, was animated not by orderliness and quite decorum but by an inebriated frenzy of music, dnace and rollicking enormity.' New Humanist

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