Nietzsche: THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY Out of The Spirit of Music [1]

From Wikipedia: “The Birth of Tragedy is a young man's work, and shows the influence of many of the philosophers Nietzsche had been studying. His interest in classical Greece as in some respects a rational society can be attributed in some measure to the influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, although Nietzsche departed from Winckelmann in many ways. In addition, Nietzsche uses the term "naïve" in exactly the sense used by Friedrich Schiller. Of great importance are the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, especially The World as Will and Representation...Nietzsche opposed Schopenhauer's Buddhistic negation of the will. He argued that life is worth living despite the enormous amount of cruelty and suffering that exists..”

Suggested text: The Portable Neitzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann
Also available used: Bookfinders

Any editions of the books on the syllabus will do (Walter Kaufmann’s translations preferred), but the texts we will use for most of our discussions are the following collections: The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann (included texts marked with an asterisk below), also available used from Bookfinders, and Walter Kaufmann’s, The Portable Nietzsche (included texts marked with two asterisks below).

Syllabus (titles are linked to free PDF’s, many of which require a free academia.edu account)
The Birth of Tragedy (Preface, sections 1-15 only)*
On Truth and Lies In A Nonmoral Sense
Selections from Untimely Meditations (academia.edu)
On The Use and Abuse of History
Schopenhauer as Educator
The Gay Science (academia.edu)
Beyond Good and Evil (academia.edu)*
On The Genealogy of Morals (academia.edu)*
The Case of Wagner*
Twilight of the Idols** (academia.edu)
The Antichrist**
Ecce Homo*
Nietzsche Contra Wagner**