by Friedrich Nietzsche · Alianza Editorial. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420614564
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«El nacimiento de la tragedia» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (278 pages, in Spanish).
Nietzsche's first published book, in which he investigates the origin of Greek tragedy from the spirit of music. It posits the tension between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, impulses whose fusion gave life to Attic drama, and analyzes its decline with Socratic rationalism, defending art as an affirmation of life.
Translation, introduction and notes by Andrés Sánchez Pascual. El libro de bolsillo collection, Clásicos section, no. 456. Original title: Die Geburt der Tragödie.
For students and readers of philosophy, classical philology and aesthetics, interested in Nietzsche's thought and tragic art.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
