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EPISODE · Sep 22, 2019 · 54 MIN

Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" (Part 1/2)

from Theory & Philosophy · host David Guignion

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I take a stab at Nietzsche (in)famous inaugural text, "The Birth of Tragedy." It is here that he tries to trace the history of tragedy (and art more generally) to the Ancient Greeks. Specifically, as the product of the tension between the gods Apollo and Dionysus.

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