Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik

Also known as: [The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music]

The Birth of Tragedy

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Language

German

Year

1872

Country

Germany

Genre

Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

⏱️german idealism

modern europe

philosophy

Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik

The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music is an 1872 work of dramatic theory by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It was reissued in 1886 as The Birth of Tragedy, Or: Hellenism and Pessimism. The later edition contained a prefatory essay, "An Attempt at Self-Criticism", wherein Nietzsche commented on this earlier book.

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