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Nietzsche on Tragedy

J P Stern author M S Silk author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Sep '16

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This influential book was the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest work, The Birth of Tragedy (1872).

The first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), this important book has been revived for a new generation of readers of Nietzsche, German philosophy and history of philosophy. It is presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery and includes a specially commissioned new preface.The first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), this important volume by M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern examines the work in detail: its place in Nietzsche's philosophical career; its value as an account of ancient Greek culture; its place in the history of German ideas, and its value as a theory of tragedy and music. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Lesley Chamberlain, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this accessible study has been revived for a new generation of readers.

ISBN: 9781107144767

Dimensions: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm

Weight: 790g

480 pages