The Birth of Tragedy
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 21, 2000
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Die Geburt der Tragödie
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780192832924
First sentence: Whatever may lie at the bottom of this questionable book: it must have been a question of the greatest interest and appeal, as well as a deeply personal question-as witnessed by the time in which it was written, in spite of which it was written, the exciting time of Franco-Prussian War of 1870-I.
Description: "In The Birth of Tragedy (1872) Nietzsche explores the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of his time. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy is the expression of a culture that has achieved a balance between Dionysian insight into the.