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The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche · 2000

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A work of fiction by Friedrich Nietzsche, published in 2000. The Birth of Tragedy has become a lasting reference in its field — valued for its insight, clarity, and enduring relevance.

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A vivid modern attack on the point came from the young Friedrich Nietzsche, though dressed up in literary flights on optimism and pessimism mixed with a hallucination on what “West,” a “typical Hellene,” and “the German soul” mean. The young Nietzsche wrote his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, while in his early twenties. He went after Socrates, whom he called the “mystagogue of science,” for “making existence appear comprehensible.”

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