num_pages: 168
description: Boldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues thatThe Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at thelimit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on thecomplexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on thecrossing of these basic art impulses in tragedy."Sallis effectively calls into question some commonlyaccepted and simplistic ideas about Nietzsche's earlythinking and its debt to Schopenhauer, and proposesalternatives that are worth considering."—RichardSchacht, Times Literary Supplement
language: English
title: Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
titlecomplete: Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 10
publisher: University of Chicago Press