The key to understanding Nietzsche’s interpretation of Greek tragedy lies in Schopenhauer’s thinking about music
The question to what extent Schopenhauer’s thinking about music can be considered the key to Nietzsche’s interpretation of Greek tragedy opens up a wide range of issues. Nietzsche’s work Die Geburt der Tragödie is definitely influenced by the philosophical heritage of Schopenhauer’s thinking but Nietzsche regrets in his “Versuch einer Selbstkritik”, a later comment on Die Geburt der Tragödie, that he was employing the familiar terms of Kant and Schopenhauer to develop his own understanding of tragedy ... continua a leggere
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