The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1872

Index

  • Preface to Richard Wagner
  • 1. Apollo and Dionysus
  • 2. The Hellenic Will
  • 3. The Dionysian Greek
  • 4. The Apollinian Dream
  • 5. The Lyric Poet
  • 6. Folk Song and Lyric
  • 7. Greek Tragedy
  • 8. The Chorus
  • 9. Sophocles and Aeschylus
  • 10. Euripides
  • 11. Socrates
  • 12. The Death of Tragedy
  • Attempt at Self-Criticism (1886)

Quote

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"Art is the highest task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life."

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