Friday, May 7, 2010

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy (section 1-4, 7-15, please note these are the numbers of the sections in the text, not in the preface)
Text available at: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/tragedy_all.htm
Journals due on May 11.
Guidance questions:
1. Why does Nietzsche talk about history of arts?
2. What are the features of Apollonian and Dionysian drives? What is tragedy?
3. What's Nietzsche's criticism on Socrates?