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This edition of The Birth of Tragedy, one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period, presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context.

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'The main purpose of the book was to challenge nineteenth-century idealisations of classical Greece: ancient tragedy at its greatest, Nietzsche argued, was animated not by orderliness and quite decorum but by an inebriated frenzy of music, dnace and rollicking enormity.' New Humanist

Table of Contents
1. The birth of tragedy; 2. The dionysiac world view; 3. On truth and lying in a non-moral sense.

Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings

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    A Hardback by Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Geuss, Ronald Speirs

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 4/22/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780521630160
      978-0521630160
      ISBN-10 0521630169
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      Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Philosophy: aesthetics Books by Friedrich Nietzsche

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This edition of The Birth of Tragedy, one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period, presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context.

      Trade Review
      'The main purpose of the book was to challenge nineteenth-century idealisations of classical Greece: ancient tragedy at its greatest, Nietzsche argued, was animated not by orderliness and quite decorum but by an inebriated frenzy of music, dnace and rollicking enormity.' New Humanist

      Table of Contents
      1. The birth of tragedy; 2. The dionysiac world view; 3. On truth and lying in a non-moral sense.

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