Category: Classics of Literature#Aesthetics#Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.#Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism
By Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Classic work by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
Total Chapters: 2•Public Domain Free Read
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book itself the piquant proposition recurs time and again, that the
existence of the world is _justified_ only as an æsthetic phenomenon. Indeed, the entire book recognises only an artist-thought and artist-after-thought behind all occurrences,--a ...
part in maieutic and pedagogic influences on noble youths, with a view
to the ultimate production of genius. But now science, spurred on by its powerful illusion, hastens irresistibly to its limits, on which its optimism, hidden in the essence of log...