The Birth of Tragedy

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism.


  1. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  2. 33 Masterpieces of Philosophy and Science to Read Before You Die (Illustrated) : Utopia, The Meditations, The Art of War, The Kama Sutra, Candide

    Thomas More, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Sun Tzu, Vatsyayana, Voltaire, Edwin A. Abbott, Aristotle, Dale Carnegie, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, René Descartes, Epictetus, Sigmund Freud, Hermann Hesse, David Hume, Lao Tzu, David Herbert Lawrence, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Mill, Prentice Mulford, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Frances Bacon

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  3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra : A Book for All and None

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  4. The Twilight of the Idols

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  5. Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  6. 400 Quotations from the Great Philosophers of the 19th Century

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sören Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer

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  7. Existentialism: Philosophical and Literary Works : Notes from Underground. Fear and Trembling. Ecce Homo. The Metamorphosis and others

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka

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  8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  9. Så talade Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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  10. Le Gai Savoir - Livre Audio

    Friedrich Nietzsche, Livres audio en français

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  11. Learn Strength with Existential Philosophers: Nietzsche & Kierkegaard : intégrale

    Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche

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  12. Friedrich Nietzsche Collection: Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Antichrist :

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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