Table of Contents

1. The birth of tragedy; 2. The dionysiac world view; 3. On truth and lying in a non-moral sense.

Promotional Information

A new translation and edition of one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period.

Reviews

'The main purpose of the book was to challenge nineteenth-century idealisations of classical Greece: ancient tragedy at its greatest, Nietzsche argued, was animated not by orderliness and quite decorum but by an inebriated frenzy of music, dnace and rollicking enormity.' New Humanist