num_pages: 236
description: 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...
language: English
title: The Birth of Tragedy
titlecomplete: The Birth of Tragedy
characters: Richard Wagner, Homer (Greek Poet), Plato, Euripides, Socrates (philosopher)
genres: Theory, Philosophy, German Literature, Nonfiction, Classics, 19th Century, Germany, Art, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 17159
publisher: Book Jungle