Episode 86
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" (Part 1/2)
September 22, 201954m 20s
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In this episode, I take a stab at Nietzsche (in)famous inaugural text, "The Birth of Tragedy." It is here that he tries to trace the history of tragedy (and art more generally) to the Ancient Greeks. Specifically, as the product of the tension between the gods Apollo and Dionysus.