Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy' - A Reader's Guide

Zusatztext This superb commentary lives up fully to its promise to explain and explicate Nietzsche's text, and it is a genuinely useful aid to understanding the ‘magic' of this seminal work. Informationen zum Autor Douglas Burnham is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of English, Creative Writing and Philosophy at Staffordshire University, UK. He has written extensively on Nietzsche including Reading Nietzsche (Acumen, 2007) and and The Nietzsche Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2014). he is the co-author, with Peter Lamb, of The First Marx (Bloomsbury 2018) Martin Jesinghausen is Senior Lecturer in English at Staffordshire University, UK. He has published in the areas of Cultural and Art History, Critical and Literary Theory, and Film. Vorwort Introduction to one of Nietzsche's most important works - a key text in nineteenth-century philosophy. Zusammenfassung Friedrich Nietzsche was arguably the most important and influential thinker of the nineteenth century. "The Birth of Tragedy", his first published work, is a classic text that remains an essential read for those seeking to understand the development of Nietzsche's ideas. This title offers an introduction to this important and yet challenging work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Context2. Overview of Themes3. Reading the Text4. Reception and Influence5. Notes for Further ReadingIndex

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Burnham, Martin Jesinghausen
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9781847065841
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-584-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Continuum Reader's Guides (Har; Reader's Guides; Continuum Reader's Guides (Har
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism