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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"The Birth of Tragedy"”.
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Nietzsche’s “Toys of Desperation” or <i>The Birth of Tragedy</i> as dramaturgical alternative
<p>This thesis provides a close reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s <i>The Birth of Tragedy</i>, with particular attention paid to his use of the “principle of individuation.” The major question this thesis confronts is whether Nietzsche’s text might provide illuminative insights for the study of …
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Eye for the Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, and the Nietszchean Chorus in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Shining City
<p>This study situates <em>The Weir</em> and <em>Shining City</em> by Conor McPherson as embodying elements of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, …
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Tragedy and Affirmation
<p>This thesis offers an interpretation of a passage from section 18 of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. In the passage, Nietzsche makes two puzzling claims which have generated interest in the recent secondary literature: (1) he says that the effect of tragedy is an illusion, and (2) he equates …
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Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing
For Nietzsche, the subject is aesthetically creative, meaning that the subject is a dynamic process of self-transformation that involves not only the subject’s sense of self, but the meaning of their world. In my first chapter, I look at "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense" to show how …
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Continuity, constellation, and unworking: an exploration of language in Nietzsche
<p>This project is an investigation of language in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. The framing question is whether Nietzsche’s treatment of language as an explicit philosophical theme in published work and notes of the early 1870s is in fact only an early interest abandoned by the later work and …
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Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
"Against the usual view that Nietzsche is antireligious, I argue for his positive philosophy of religion, and for an affirmative religiousness of his own which finds expression in the figures of Dionysus and Zarathustra. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity must not be taken for hostility toward …
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Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche is well known as the philosopher of the tragic view of life. Because we are part of the world of becoming the tragic view maintains that human beings are given over to certain limits that we cannot transcend. These include ourselves as finite beings, the recognition that …