M. S. Silk, J. P. Stern

Nietzsche on Tragedy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781316507933
• ISBN-10: 1316507939
• Artikelnr.: 44390097

Autorenporträt

M. S. Silk is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King's College London. His research interests include tragedy and comedy in theory and practice, Greek poetry and drama, and both ancient and modern literary theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to this edition Lesley Chamberlain
Note
1. Germany and Greece
2. Biographical background I: Nietzsche and his early interests
3. Biographical background II: the genesis of The Birth of Tragedy
4. The argument of The Birth of Tragedy
5. The aftermath
6. Nietzsche's account of Greece
7. Mode and originality
8. Tragedy, music and aesthetics
9. Nietzsche and earlier German theories of tragedy
10. Style and philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
Index.