TY - BOOK AU - Nietzsche,Friedrich Wilhelm AU - Levy,Oscar AU - Haussmann,William A. TI - The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism AV - B PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Aesthetics KW - Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics KW - Tragedy KW - Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc KW - Mythology, Greek, in literature KW - Tragic, The N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Tragedy; Release date is 2016-03-04; Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism" by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a work of dramatic theory published in 1872. Nietzsche introduces a bold dichotomy between the Dionysian and Apollonian forces—disorder versus order—that he believed shaped ancient Greek tragedy. He argues that Greek tragedy achieved art's highest form by uniting these opposing elements, allowing audiences to experience the full human condition. Nietzsche traces tragedy's decline through rationalism and suggests Richard Wagner's operas might revive this lost balance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51356 ER -