Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,  1844-1900 <br/><br/>
Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Tragedy https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Geburt_der_Trag%C3%B6die_aus_dem_Geiste_der_Musik  Release date is 2005-01-01 
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<br/><br/> "Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik" by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a philosophical work published in 1872. Nietzsche challenges the classical view of ancient Greeks as purely cheerful, revealing instead a tragic worldview. He introduces his theory of two opposing artistic forces embodied by the gods Apollo and Dionysus—the harmonious versus the ecstatic. Through analyzing Greek tragedy's birth and decline, the young philology professor presents bold cultural and aesthetic ideas that distanced him from traditional scholarship and influenced twentieth-century thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Aesthetics Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics Tragedy Philosophy, German Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Mythology, Greek, in literature Tragic, The 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B