The Smile of Tragedy

The Smile of Tragedy
Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 182
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780271058900
ISBN-13 : 0271058900
Rating : 4/5 (900 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Smile of Tragedy by : Daniel R. Ahern

Download or read book The Smile of Tragedy written by Daniel R. Ahern and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the Socratic era but also for his overall critique of Western culture. Through an interpretation of “Dionysian pessimism,” Ahern clarifies the ways in which Nietzsche sees ethics and aesthetics as inseparable and how their theoretical separation is at the root of Western nihilism. Ahern explains why Nietzsche, in creating this precursor to a new aesthetics, rejects Aristotle’s medicinal interpretation of tragic art and concentrates on Apollinian cruelty as a form of intoxication without which there can be no art. Ahern shows that Nietzsche saw the human body as the vessel through which virtue and art are possible, as the path to an interpretation of “selflessness,” as the means to determining an order of rank among human beings, and as the site where ethics and aesthetics coincide.


The Smile of Tragedy Related Books

The Smile of Tragedy
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Daniel R. Ahern
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-26 - Publisher: Penn State Press

GET EBOOK

In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation
The Smile of Tragedy: Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Penn State Press

GET EBOOK

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Paul S. Loeb
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche's desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.
Integrating Embodied Practice and Transformational Wisdom for Sustainable Organization and Leadership
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Wendelin M. Küpers
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-01 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

GET EBOOK

A multifaceted ecological and socio-cultural crisis confronts us, and the irresponsible and unsustainable operations and actions encouraging this predicament ar
What Was Tragedy?
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Blair Hoxby
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero's moral free