Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche (PDF)

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The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period.

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Editorial Reviews: 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 Book Description A new translation and edition of one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period.

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⭐Famously gnarly and difficult to understand, it’s a lot to ask of “everyone.” Part of the reason for the obscurity is that he was writing in another century, where manners and expressions were required to follow a certain decorum, and when being straightforward and direct was not considered polite or seemly for an educated, erudite person. Another reason is that he wrote in German, which is famous for paragraph-long sentences, the understanding of which is made even more difficult by the fact that the VERB comes at the END of the sentence! Imagine reading all around the concept of WHAT is happening, not knowing what’s being done, until the last couple of words! Translators do their best to break the sentences into English-sized ones, and when they are better, they leave them at their original length, but the WHAT the ACTION is, that’s taking place, is then no longer a mystery until the end! And then comes the final reason for the obscurity — Nietzsche talks about things nobody else does. There is no simple way to shine a light on his perception of the world, reality, people, without almost having to invent a language that doesn’t depend on words for which we already have recognized definitions, because they are inadequate to convey what his thoughts are.Thus having turned off anyone who wanted to read him, I beg you, don’t be! Because even if you don’t “get” every sentence, you WILL indeed be left with a feeling of what he is saying, and that is enough! Nobody else will give it to you. On the whole, his messages are not happy ones! In a world that gives only positive affirmations and sends icons of hearts & flowers, rainbows and unicorns, is what Nietzsche has to say going to be welcome? Not by most. But there are people on this earth who know that what they see and hear in the culture isn’t enough, and doesn’t even come close to the surface of touching what is really going on, particularly inside us. For those people, he is required reading. And the others, well, they really should read him. Then maybe they’d understand that the superficial joys they are sending and wishing for themselves are merely escapism — but not from life’s ills, but from themselves!

⭐Nietzsche’s premier is a fantastic work. After reading the first chapter I was pleased to discard the combative polemic of an introduction.”Singing and dancing, man expresses his sense of belonging to a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and talk and is on the brink of flying and dancing, up and away into the air above. His gestures speak of his enchantment. Just as the animals now talk and the earth gives milk and honey, there now sounds out from within man something supernatural: he feels himself to be a god, he himself now moves in such ecstasy and sublimity as once he saw the gods move in his dreams. Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: all nature’s artistic power reveals itself here, amidst shivers of intoxication, to the highest, most blissful satisfaction of the primordial unity. Here man, the noblest clay, the most precious marble, is kneaded and carved and, to the accompaniment of the chisel-blows of the Dionysiac world-artist, the call of the Eleusinian Mysteries rings out: ‘Fall ye to the ground, ye millions? Feelst thou thy Creator, world?'”–Nietzsche

⭐Great

⭐Why care what I dislike? Paid for it, got it on time, not torn up.

⭐His writing although at times incoherent in long stretches reveals Nietzsche’s interpretation , perception and the unfolding process of Greek tragedy as an aesthetic movement , If one has read Nietzsche’s later published work , one can see the evolution of his thought process. it’s worth the time spent.

⭐This volume includesThe Birth of TragedyThe Dionysian World ViewOn Truth and Lying in the Supra-Moral SenseRonald Speirs’ translation is very good and about everything one expects from an institution such as Cambridge. Raymond Geuss’ introduction is: unsympathetic, condescending, spurious and trite with biographical snippets excepting. Skip the introduction to this text.

⭐Love this book– but only skimmed since I’m a bad student. But I will get to it when I turn into a good student. Good was in perfect condition.

⭐Textbook selection!!!

⭐If this was just Nietzsche’s work on its own, I would probably have given it 3/5. Despite his undeniable intelligence and energy, I find myself agreeing with Nietzsche’s contemporary critics that this book is both perversely difficult in some of its prose and delirious digressions, and unconvincing in its main argument.The young Nietzsche argues that tragedy, specifically musical tragedy with a Dionysiac chorus, unites the two competing ‘primal artistic drives’, Apollo and Dionysos. Apollo deals with image and representation whereas Dionysos oversees chaotic, lustful, intoxicated magic. These two combine in Greek tragedy; the balance and conflict that can only be achieved in this framework forms the tragic culture within which people are fulfilled and life is justified as an aesthetic phenomenon.Socrates, says Nietzsche, destroyed all this with his love for accuracy and science. The one great achievement of tragedy dead, the rest of history is seen as the story of the triumph of Socrates and the consequent degeneration of culture and society. But there is now (in the 19th century) an opportunity to get back this tragic state, and it lies with the German national spirit and the operas of Richard Wagner.Of course, with that great German national spirit and the operas of Richard Wagner also being favourites of the Nazi party, the ideas in The Birth of Tragedy became tainted in the mid-20th century in the eyes of many. That’s one of the reasons you don’t really hear about it nowadays, even among people who have read a little armchair Nietzsche. Not that the book was any great success to begin with – the main success being in alienating most of the philological establishment.The introduction by Raymond Guess is brilliant. It locates the book amongst all the relevant cultural and intellectual context of the day and will help anyone understand both the work itself, and its place in the rest of 19th century intellectual history. It would have been great to have more on the way it was used – and abused – by politicians later on, but that topic is outside the remit of this introduction.The Cambridge University Press version also includes two further essays by Nietzsche which speak to the themes of the main work: The Dionysiac World View and On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense, both unpublished in Nietzsche’s lifetime.

⭐Arrived quickly and packaged appropriately, happy with purchase.

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