The Birth of Tragedy
by Nietzsche, Friedrich
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- 0192832921
- ISBN 13
- 9780192832924
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Synopsis
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. Shaun Whiteside’s translations include Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and Musil’s The Confessions of Young Törless for Penguin Classics.
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- Better World Books (US)
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- 15857540-6
- Title
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Author
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192832921
- ISBN 13
- 9780192832924
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York.
- This edition first published
- February 21, 2000
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