Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy / Edition 2

by John Sallis

Overview

Boldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that
The Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at the
limit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on the
complexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on the
crossing of these basic art impulses in tragedy.

"Sallis effectively calls into question some commonly
accepted and simplistic ideas about Nietzsche's early
thinking and its debt to Schopenhauer, and proposes
alternatives that are worth considering."—Richard
Schacht, Times Literary Supplement

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226734378
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/09/1991
Edition description:	1
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Sallis is the Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and the author of numerous books, including The Verge of Philosophy and Shades—Of Painting at the Limit.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Texts and Abbreviations
Das Masslose
1. Apollo
Shining Phantasy
2. Dionysus
Resounding Excess
3. Tragedy
Sublime Ecstasy
4. Socrates
Writing Music
"It should have sung . . . "
Index