The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy

by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Publisher:
Penguin UK
Genre:Literary Criticism
Language: en
Published:1993
ISBN13:9780140433395
ISBN10:0140433392

About the Book

Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the author's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner. It outlines a distinction between two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime.