The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche discussion

This landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, to whom the book was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between two central forces in art: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture.

Text...

• eBook https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51356
• Audio https://librivox.org/birth-of-tragedy-by-friedrich-nietzsche/

Podcasts...

• Philosophize This! Nietzsche and Critchley on the tragic perspective https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-201-transcript-bkx3e-37rkx-bpl83-ysc9b-kkg62-rk7n2-8j6gw-p837t-fwc2c-armek
• The Partially Examined Life: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2015/07/06/ep119-1-nietzsche/
• In Our Time: Tragedy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005464v
• In Our Time: Wagner https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548gv

Video...

• Genius Of The Modern World: Friedrich Nietzsche https://youtu.be/_poZE8833t4?feature=shared
• Academy of Ideas: Nietzsche and Dionysus: Tragedy and the Affirmation of Life https://youtu.be/w9zSQ2uGCoI?feature=shared

Other Resources...

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
• SparkNotes: The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/birthoftragedy/