The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Michael Tanner (Editor) and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)

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The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.
 
The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Victorian era, and it analyzed themes developed in the twentieth century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts, and others.
  • ISBN10 0140433392
  • ISBN13 9780140433395
  • Publish Date 1 January 1994
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics