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Dionysia Metaphysica: A Reiteration of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

Dionysia Metaphysica: A Reiteration of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

Chester, James

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1735016705
ISBN13: 9781735016702
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 1 2020
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche entitled the first draft of The Birth of Tragedy (BT) as The Dionysian Vision of the World. Dionysia Metaphsyica presents a reiteration of BT as, indeed, a view of the world, specifically the inner world of man, which is a metaphysica. BT is not Nietzsche's scholarly view of ancient Greek culture during the time in history when the practice of tragedy arose as a new art form. But most books about BT have focused precisely on this scholarly view. Viewed instead as a metaphysica, and using a translation of Nietzsche's original writing word for word, this reiteration elucidates a theory of life within human being as art in the form of mythopoeia, or the creation of Self, founded on a process of growth arising out of an evolutionary interplay between the two realms of sensation and ideation. It also provides valuable insight into Nietzsche's invention of a new art form called dithyrambic drama as a vehicle with which to achieve a true representation of tragedy and therewith resurrect the practice of tragedy. As such, the reiteration also provides insight into how to read a dithyramb and how to practice dithyrambic drama for the purpose of undertaking the world's only dithyrambic tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which Nietzsche wrote.

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