The Birth of Tragedy

Name: The Birth of Tragedy
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780990459934

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrator: William Sigalis

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Agora Publications

Published: 01/01/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

The Birth of Tragedy stands alongside Aristotle’s Poetics as essential works for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life. In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as the focus of this work, music, visual art, dance, and the other arts can also be viewed using Nietzsche’s analysis and integration of the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

About Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and philologist whose best-known works include Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Ecce Homo; Human, All Too Human; and Beyond Good and Evil. Much of his work is characterized by radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth and criticism of traditional ideals of morality. Nietzsche's writings were significant influences on the existentialist, nihilist, and postmodernist schools of thought, as well as on the work of such later writers as Herman Hesse, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn

With his vivid, passionate language, 19th century German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche wrote his books as a way to pry open a space in a reader’s psyche, a space empowering an individual to embark on a journey of inner exploration. This is precisely why I think any attempt, no matter how well inten......more

Goodreads review by Riku

Apollo Vs Dionysus: A Darwinian Drama Nietzsche never struck me as a real philosopher. He was too much the story-teller. This is probably his most a-philosophical (?) work. But it is my favorite. It was the most accessible to me and it was the most relevant of his works. It helped me form my own convi......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

Nietzsche talks in abstract ways and I find it very difficult to access his words and ideas, and even harder to actually agree with them or sympathise with his stance. As such, I’ve always found this book a little odd. I read it years ago for university, but I recently picked it up again with the ho......more