Positing a dialectic between the "Apollinian" and "Dionysian," FTP, name this work whose original subtitle referred to the "spirit of music" from which the titular artistic genre arose, the first book by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The first defense of this work was a pamphlet called Afterphilologie by the author's friend Ernst Rohde, which was a response to an attack on this work entitled Philology of the Future by Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. The foreword notes that this work's inspiration came as the "thunder of the battle of Wörth was rolling over Europe," and asks such questions as "Is there a pessimism of strength?" and "Was Epicurus an optimist precisely because he was afflicted?" After that "attempt at a self-criticism," this work features 25 chapters, the last ten of which consider the work of a contemporary composer to whom the work's preface is addressed. Positing a dialectic between the "Apollinian" and "Dionysian," FTP, name this work whose original subtitle referred to the "spirit of music" from which the titular artistic genre arose, the first book by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The first defense of this work was a pamphlet called Afterphilologie by the author's friend Ernst Rohde, which was a response to an attack on this work entitled Philology of the Future by Ulrich Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.
The {Birth of Tragedy} or Die {Geburt der Tragödie}