The Invention of Dionysus

The Invention of Dionysus breaks new ground in our appreciation of Nietzsche...Porter's minute and innovative reading...is both challenging and stimuling, requiring us to return to a work too often glossed over." --Thomas L. Cooksey, Armongstrong Atlantic State University

About the author

James I. Porter is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of Constructions of the Classical Body and the author of Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future (Stanford, 1999).

Summary

This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. It shows that many of the book's elements are reminiscent of Nietzsche's earlier revisions of philology and anticipate the later writings.

Additional text

The Invention of Dionysus breaks new ground in our appreciation of Nietzsche...Porter's minute and innovative reading...is both challenging and stimuling, requiring us to return to a work too often glossed over."

Product details

• Authors: James I Porter, James I. Porter
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780804736992
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-3699-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophiegeschichte, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics