The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism

The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism

by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Publication Date: 17/04/2019

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The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism and #40;German: Die Geburt der Tragödie, Oder: Griechentum und Pessimismus and #41;. The later edition contained a prefatory essay, and quot;An Attempt at Self-Criticism and quot;, wherein Nietzsche commented on this earliest book. The Birth of Tragedy was angrily criticized by many respected professional scholars of Greek literature. Particularly vehement was philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, who denounced Nietzsche and #39;s work as slipshod and misleading. Prompted by Nietzsche, Erwin Rohde—a friend who had written a favorable review that sparked the first derogatory debate over the book—responded by exposing Wilamowitz-Moellendorf and #39;s inaccurate citations of Nietzsche and #39;s work. Richard Wagner also issued a response to Wilamowitz-Moellendorf and #39;s critique, but his action only served to characterize Nietzsche as the composer and #39;s lackey.

ISBN:
9780369400345
9780369400345
Category:
Society & social sciences
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-04-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Aegitas
Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later.

Known for saying that 'god is dead,' Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.

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