Name: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Rating: 3.84 (25 reviews)
ISBN: 9781594625855

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nietzsche Friedrich

The Birth of Tragedy, first Nietzsche's books. It was republished in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism. An Attempt at Self-Criticism, wherein Nietzsche commented on this very early work. In this book Nietzsche characterizes the conflict between two distinct tendencies - the Apollonian and Dionysian. Nietzsche describes in this book how from Socrates onward the Apollonian had dominated Western thought, and raises German Romanticism as a possible reintroduction of the Dionysian to the salvation of European culture...

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Out of the Spirit of Music

The Birth of Tragedy

"underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed."

"The two books in this volume belong together in theme. The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, ends with a lengthy panegyric on the rebirth of tragedy in Wagner's opera's. In his "Attempt at a Self-Criticism," added as a preface to the "new edition" of 1886, Nietzsche regretted that he had "spoiled the grandiose Greek problem ... by introducing the most modern problems," and he explained that he had meanwhile come to see Wagner in a very different light. Two years later, in 1888, Nietzsche brought out the last book whose publication he himself experienced: The Case of Wagner."--From book's preface.

And The Case of Wagner

Donald

I was inspired to read this by the discussions of it in THE ABSENT SEA by Carlos Franz. In the Franz novel, and pretty much everywhere else, the meaning of this book is boiled down to the conflict between Apollo and Dionysus. I disagree.

Apollo and Dionysus are actually intertwined and almost part of each other. The real conflict is between Dionysus and Socrates (via Euripides). Whereas Apollo actually allows a space for Dionysus to flourish, Socrates is a demon that destroys him. It makes me want to reread the tragedies.

I wish philosophers still wrote like this.

Ryan Greene

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: 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 and in literary criticism.

Arman Keyvanskhou

Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational.

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Jacó Guinsburg

Primeiro livro de Nietzsche, 'O nascimento da tragédia' foi publicado em 1872. Obra de um jovem professor de letras clássicas, despertou polêmica pelo seu caráter pessoal e pela ousadia de sua abordagem - desafiava a concepção tradicional dos gregos como povo sereno e simples e exaltava a ópera de Wagner como renovadora do espírito alemão, numa singular mistura de reconstrução histórica, intuição psicológica e militância estético-cultural. Mais de um século depois, suas teses continuam discutidas. Ele oferece não só uma interpretação da tragédia, mas da própria cultura grega, do nexo entre arte e conhecimento e da época moderna. Já neste primeiro rebento a filosofia nietzscheana se revela como apaixonada reflexão sobre o sentido da existência.

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

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