by Friedrich Nietzsche · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420637105
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«El nacimiento de la tragedia» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Alianza in paperback (298 pages, in Spanish).
In his first work, Nietzsche analyzes the origin of Greek tragedy through the tension between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, two impulses that shape art. From there, he reviews the role of Socrates and Euripides in the decline of tragic drama and proposes a new conception of the world that would influence his later writings.
Aimed at readers interested in nineteenth-century philosophy and the aesthetic interpretation of classical Greek culture.
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.
