Ebook {Epub PDF} The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche

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. The thesis is complex and inspired by Schopenhauer’s worldview; not exactly textbook knowledge for most Americans. But in essence Nietzsche thinks that tragedy was born from the fusion between the wild, orgiastic and dissolutive spirit of Dionysius and the /5(). BIRTH OF TRAGEDY reads like a philosophical work, but it's really souped-up philology in the service of Wagner. Nietzsche wrote it in the first blush of his attraction to monster genius Wagner, and I think it's more biographical than otherwise. THE CASE OF WAGNER is the end of the affair: Nietzsche sums up the total decadence of his once beloved Meister. Nietzsche was really a very bad critic of Wagner, Cited by:

Buy The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner by Nietzsche, Friedrich (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on eligible orders. The Birth of Tragedy () was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism' which he added to the new edition of The Case of Wagner () was one of Nietzsche's last books, and his wittiest. In attitude and style it is diametrically opposed to The Birth of Tragedy. (in full The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music) Book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in as Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Geiste der Musik.A speculative rather than exegetical work, The Birth of Tragedy examines the origins and development of poetry, specifically Greek tragedy. Nietzsche argues that Greek tragedy arose out of the fusion of what he.

In , Nietzsche completed in the first text of The Birth of Tragedy, which he had first entitled "Greek Cheerfulness." Wagner then encouraged Nietzsche to connect this work with his own musical projects. Nietzsche, no doubt eager to please his father figure, renamed the book The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, and included numerous references to Wagner and to the role of music in tragedy. Finally published in , the book was heavily criticized by a young philologist called. The Birth of Tragedy () was Nietzsche's 1st book. Its youthful faults were exposed by him in the brilliant 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism' which he added to the new edition of But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. 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.