Kommentar Zu Nietzsches Werk: Die Geburt der Tragödie Aus Dem Geiste der Musik

Referred to by Mazzino Montinari as “Nietzsche's most difficult work,” The Birth of Tragedy plumbs ancient traditions, and is oriented to the worldviews expressed by Schopenhauer and Wagner, whose ‘musical dramas’ Nietzsche presents as the “rebirth of tragedy.” Nietzsche's own work and his cultural critique were primarily informed by Dionysian notions. Directed against decadence, the Dionysian became a semaphore for the ecstatic celebration of life.