Good book to read during my down time at work.
Incredibly well written and thought out. Easily one of my favorite philosophers.
It is 1 man building his ego by critical analytics of Socrates and other historic men...Ill of the dead.
Let's keep it real..This book is BORINGActually watching Grass grow is a hell of a lot more fun then reading this garbage.
It is only a dollar and although it uses and older translation, it is still readable. It is also printed on recycled paper which is good.
The Birth of Tragedy, the first book written by towering nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, presents a highly individualistic and aesthetically sophisticated interpretation of Attic Tragedy, the Greek plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides which have long occupied an artistic peak of world culture. Nietzsche adopts the spirit of the Greeks, who had a god or goddess for every thing and every idea, and assigns parts of Greek Tragedy to the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus.
... for a very cheap price!
The book is a great value for the price, but there isn't much in the way of extras. I just wanted the text, though, and this is great.
This is a slendor volume, yet it is my favorite of all of Nietzsche's works. So far as I can tell it is a fairly good translation, but obviously this book has not gotten the amount of attention that his other works have, so perhaps the definitive translation has not yet arrived.
Forget Wagner, whose disgruntled cacophony posing as music is nicely dispatched by Oscar Wilde in one of his plays with a comparative quip when somebody rings an old and disturbingly noisy doorbell. Forget Wagner because The Birth of Tragedy is the greatest work of art criticism ever written.
I read this book years ago and I fell in love with the ideas of Nietzsche. I think every teenage intellectual goes through an existentialist phase, it fits so well with the pubescent and oncoming adulthood experience.
Certainly one of the most influential books in the Western World, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is also of great interest to the modern day metaphysician and astrologer. Nietzsche explains the alchemy between the god Apollo and the god Dionysius which can be related to the eternal dialogue in the astrology chart between the male and female polarities.
One can easily note this is Nietzsche's first book. First, it's written in an essay form, not in his most known aphorisms.
Yes, this book is the clear explanation to the Dionisyan concept used by Nietzsche, yet the focus isn't the same powerful Nietzsche. This book is far to historical, can be somewhat overwhelming unless you are inlove with Nietzsche and Greeks.
