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The Birth of Tragedy or Hellenism and Pessimism

The Birth of Tragedy or Hellenism and Pessimism

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PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1530531497
ISBN13: 9781530531493
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 13 2016
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. The Greek spectators, by looking into the abyss of human suffering and affirming it, passionately and joyously affirmed the meaning of their own existence. They knew themselves to be infinitely more than petty individuals, finding self-affirmation not in another life, not in a world to come, but in the terror and ecstasy alike celebrated in the performance of tragedies.

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