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Original Title:	Die Geburt der Tragödie/Der Fall Wagner
ISBN:	0394703693 (ISBN13: 9780394703695)
Edition Language:	English URL http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/

The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner

Friedrich Nietzsche

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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Title	:	The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
Author	:	Friedrich Nietzsche
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	April 12th 1967 by Vintage Books (NY) (first published 1888)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Music

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The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's 1st book. Its youthful faults were exposed by him in the brilliant 'Attempt at a Self-Criticism' which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down thru the Victorian era. It sounded themes developed in the 20th century by classicists, existentialists, psychoanalysts & others. The Case of Wagner (1888) was one his last books & his wittiest. In attitude & style it's diametrically opposed to The Birth of Tragedy. Both works transcend their ostensible subjects & deal with art & culture, as well as the problems of the modern age generally. Each book in itself gives us an inadequate idea of its author; together, they furnish a striking image of Nietzsche's thought. The distinguished new translations by Walter Kaufmann superbly reflect in English Nietzsche's idiom & the vitality of his style. Kaufmann has also furnished running footnote commentaries, relevant passages from Nietzsche's correspondence, a bibliography, &, for the 1st time in any edition, an extensive index to each book.

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The Birth of Tragedy is one of the prescribed readings for my philosophy unit on Nietzsche. After years of doing analytic philosophy, I was unprepared for the manner in which this philosophical text was written. It is probably a good idea to understand Nietzsche's philosophical themes first before deciphering it in this book. Otherwise, it is hard to see the point of what Nietzsche is trying to say.

I returned to this book last year after having read portions of it for college. Though there are other books of Nietzsches that are more respected, some of the passages and images in Birth have stuck with me more stubbornly than those in his other books. It is here that I find Nietzsches thoughts on the suffering that life throws our way and on the role of art in the redemption of that suffering most memorable. The book is often overwrought and self-indulgent but, in an odd way, that actually

Well . . . How can one not recommend what Kaufmann (the translator) describes as one of the most important critical documents since Aristotles Poetics? And, in my humble reading experience, I have to agree.Simply, The Birth . . . represents some of the most profound and impressionable observations about art.It is here, with Nietzsche, that the Apollonian-Dionysian opposites are posed. Additionally, the exploration of meaning behind these gods and gods as concepts is incisive.I must agree again



At times during my reading of "The Birth of Tragedy" I felt a great sense of the poverty of my modern public education. Apart from learning to read, and maybe some fundamental principles of math and reasoning, everything else I have forgotten or willingly discarded. What I would give, especially after reading a book like this, to replace those 12 years with a classical Greek education, and not just the rational wisdom of Socrates but also the earlier art, the epics of Homer and the tragedies of

You say TomaytoI say TomahtoYou say PotaytoI say PotahtoTomayto, Tomahto, Potayto, PotahtoLets call the whole thing offYou spell ApollonianI spell ApollinianYou say Dio-nice-ianI say Dio-niss-ianApollinian, Dionysian, Hegelian DialecticLets call the whole thing offYou say WagnerianNietzsche says WankerianYou say RomanticNietszche says PedanticRomantic, pedantic, Wagner was a wankerLets call the whole thing off

If you haven't read the extant Greek tragedians, it would be extremely surprising to me if you found The Birth of Tragedy anything other than incomprehensible. If you want a thorough understanding, you'd also have to have a decent command of Schopenhauer, Plato, and Goethe, just to name a few. Personally, I've delved into the Greek playwrights as of late, so I came at this book from that angle -- to see what he had to say about Aeschylus for example -- rather than the point of view of reading