Nietzsche''s ''The Birth of Tragedy'' : A Reader''s Guide.
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| Author / Creator: | Burnham, Douglas. |
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| Imprint: | London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (203 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reader''s Guides Reader''s Guides. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10009036 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Context; 2. Overview of Themes; 3. Reading the Text; An Attempt at Self-Criticism'; Foreword: Art, Wagner and War; Section 1: The Apolline and Dionysiac as Art- Drives and 'Living Concepts'; Envisaging a New Science of Aesthetics. Note: Nietzsche and Darwin; Section 2: The Drives at Work in Pre-Socratic Greece; Three Types of Symbolization; Psychogenesis of the Dionysian in Asia and in Greek Culture; Section 3: The Origins of 'Genealogy': Psychogenesis of the Apollonian in the Greek 'Character'. Note: Nietzsche, German 'Hellenism' and Hölderlin
- Section 4: Necessity of Relationship between the Drives: their 'Reciprocal Intensification' the 'Ethics' of the Drives; the Five Periods of Greek Culture; Introduction of 'Attic Tragedy'; Section 5: Historical Manifestation of the 'Third Type' of Symbolization: Archilochus, the 'Father' of Tragedy; The Fusion of the Drives in Lyric Poetry; Section 6: Folk Song; Fusion of Language and Music; Section 7: The Chorus as Historical Nucleus of Tragedy; Nietzsche's Critique of Hegel; Section 8: The Chorus as Earliest Cell of Tragedy
- Modern Poetry and Theory of Language. Note: Philosophy of Language in NietzscheSection 9: The Double Meaning of Sophoclean and Aeschylean Tragedy; Section 10: The Revival of Myth in Tragedy as its Death Throes: The End of the Mythological Age and the Dawning Age of Logic; Section 11: Euripides as Critic rather than Poet; Section 12: The Misunderstanding and Repression of the Art-Drives; Section 13: Socrates - The Axis of Cultural History; Section 14: Death of Tragedy; Birth of Modern Art; Section 15: Science as a Deficient Mode of Art; Socrates at the Gates of Modernity
- Section 16: Aesthetics of Modern Music Drama. Note: Nietzsche, Music and StyleSection 17: Death of Myth as the Death of Tragedy; Section 18: The Crisis of Socratic Modernity. Note: on 'Bildung'; Section 19: Naïve and Sentimental; Early Opera - Mismatch of Ingredient Elements; Section 20: German Education; Revolutionary Epiphany; Section 21: Modern Opera - Wagner's Tristan and Isolde as Aesthetic Paradigm; Section 22: The Aesthetic Listener; Section 23: The Still Untroubled Unity of the German Spirit
- Section 24: Justification of the World as Aesthetic Phenomenon Radicalised - Theory of Musical DissonanceSection 25: The Study of Dissonant Man; 4. Reception and Influence; Study Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W