Notes on Nietzsche and the Greek Tragedy: § 10 of The Birth of Tragedy in the spirit of Music

Authors

  • Rachel Gazolla

Keywords:

myth, symbol, Tragedy, feeling of mith

Abstract

This research aims to demonstrate that Nietzsche extracts from the Greek Tragedy a thought that is innovative for modernity: that the myth and the feeling of myth are indelible marks in man. In tragic texts, in play-acting, in music, the Dionysian power is supported by the creation of Apollonian illusions of inescapable presence. This poetry represents, in the power and weaknesses of its heroes, in its masks and in its profoundness, the founding ground which vanishes little by little with the advent of Philosophy, arriving at the German Romantism without a total rupture with its origin.

Published

2015-09-30

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