The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift) |
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 | Nietzsche is a philosopher that most people have heard of. He is quoted )maybe 'mentioned' is a better word)a lot, all over the place. But he also seems grossely misunderstood. He is not the anarchistic maniac that one would think he is from listening even to commentators that should know better. He was actually a philologist (a historian of language), and taught at University level before packing it all in to roam Europe and write his books. He is a colouful, eccentric, enthusiastic personality who also happens to talk a lot of sense. His style is often very instinctive, saying things that defy normal logic - they at first seem odd, but then one does realize that he is absolutely correct in what he is saying. This book outlines his view on the importance in art of combining the sensible, ordered 'Apollonian' principle, with the wild and musically intoxicated 'Dyonisian' principle. He berates the 'naivity' of Homerian Epic, which for him is the epitomy of Apollonian art, and praises ... read more.
Written by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Published 01 October 1995.
Published by Dover Publications Inc..
rrp £2.50.
96 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0486285154
ISBN-13: 9780486285153 | |
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