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The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1872
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 150

A young philosopher argues that Greek tragedy was born from the marriage of dream and intoxication, order and frenzy, and that too much reason killed it.

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.
The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche

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