Nietzsche: THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY [Session 12: Sections 14-15]

Reading for this week: Section 14 and Section 15

It’s 1872, and a friend has just given you a copy and recommendation of a small book by a professor of philology named Friedrich Nietzsche. You’ve never heard of the guy, but your friend says that Nietzsche has some very provocative thoughts about classical Greek tragedy and aesthetics. He seems to be a philosopher of some sort, but he doesn’t write like one.

This Is the beginner’s mind that this Meetup will take with this book. You may know his contemporaries and antecedents, but you’re here to share YOUR thoughts, not those of subsequent critics.

Recordings and AI summaries of previous sessions are available here.
Suggested texts: The Portable Neitzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann and The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann

Syllabus (titles are linked to free PDF’s, most of which require a free academia.edu account)
The Birth of Tragedy (Preface, sections 1-15 only)*
Selections from [Untimely Meditations (academia.edu)](https://www.academia.edu/35624730/Friedrich_Nietzsche_Untimely_Meditations_Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy_1997_)
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**

*The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, edited by Walter Kaufmann
**Walter Kaufmann’s, The Portable Nietzsche