Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy': A Reader's Guide

by Douglas Burnham, Martin Jesinghausen

Overview

Introduction to one of Nietzsche's most important works - a key text in nineteenth-century philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847065841
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/20/2010
Series:	Reader's Guides
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Douglas Burnham is Professor of Philosophy at Staffordshire University, UK. His previous publications include Kant's Philosophies of Judgement (Edinburgh UP, 2004), Reading Nietzsche (Acumen, 2007) and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (Edinburgh UP, 2007).

Martin Jesinghausen is Senior Lecturer in English at Staffordshire University, UK. He has published in the areas of Cultural and Art History, Critical and Literary Theory, and Film.

Table of Contents

1. Context2. Overview of Themes3. Reading the Text4. Reception and Influence5. Notes for Further ReadingIndex

Editorial Reviews

This superb commentary lives up fully to its promise to explain and explicate Nietzsche's text, and it is a genuinely useful aid to understanding the 'magic' of this seminal work.

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