Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings
$153.40
- Hardcover
204 pages
- Release Date
22 April 1999
Summary
The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche’s discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under which it will decline, his analysis of the sources of discontent with the modern world, his criticism of rationalism and of traditional morality, his aesthetic theories and his conception of the ‘Dionysiac’ have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music, and politics of the twe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521630160 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0521630169 |
| Author: | Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Geuss, Ronald Speirs |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 204 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 1999 |
| Weight: | 455g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 157mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy |
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Critics Review
‘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
About The Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His many publications include Problems of the Self (Cambridge University Press, 1973), Moral Luck (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1986), Shame and Necessity (University of California Press, 1993), and Making Sense of Humanity (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
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