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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 193 EAN: 9780521639873 ISBN: 0521639875 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 203 Publication Date: April 28, 1999 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Studio: Cambridge University Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - Mind-blowing and life-changing: why nighttime is the right time.After Plato/Aristotle, the most influential (and read) Western philosopher is Nietzsche, and few of his writings continue to resonate in the mind as forcefully as "The Birth of Tragedy." It's at once a coherent and fairly accessible text with implications far in excess of its stated, explicit meanings. Although Nietzsche's focus is, as the title indicates, on Greek drama prior to the 5th century B.C. and to the written records of Aeschylus, his setting is as much the realm of the sub-conscious, ... Read More Rating: - Greeks, those who made life seem most seductive... Although I'd spent some time reading Nietzsche somewhat intensively, I'm far from being a "student of Nietzsche," let alone a "Nietzsche scholar." My reading of him was more as a disturbed soul than as a student/scholar, and I didn't get much in the way of philosophical achievement of his. One of my plans for the summer is to read him more carefully and more with an eye to his intellectual development, and I began with The Birth of Tragedy. So, BT is his first book, published when he ... Read More Rating: - It got me through a long plane rideMy mom gave me this book to read on a plane flight to Prague. I loved it and it kept me glued to the pages for the whole time. "The age of the Socratic man is over...only dare to be tragic men" - I love this stuff! Sincerely, David Rating:  - Cross-Roads of Tragedy, Music and Philosophy"Birth of Tragedy" can be stated as the first study off the hands of a master, concerning the European thought while establishing cross-roads between theater and music. According to Nietzsche, who approaches diverse philosophical problems along paths other than European philosophical tradition, thinking man is defined as creative, progressive and productive. His superior talents qualify him as one of the "über-mensch". Tragedy too embodies an application quality which makes its way through ... Read More 
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