Dionysia Metaphysica: A Reiteration of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781735016702)

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche entitled the first draft of "The Birth of Tragedy" (BT) as "The Dionysian Vision of the World." Dionysia Metaphsyica presents a reiteration of BT as, indeed, a view of the world, specifically the inner world of man, which is a metaphysica. BT is not Nietzsche's scholarly view of ancient Greek culture during the time in history when the practice of tragedy arose as a new art form. But most books about BT have focused precisely on this scholarly view. Viewed instead as a metaphysica, and using a translation of Nietzsche's original writing word for word, this reiteration elucidates a theory of life within human being as art in the form of mythopoeia, or the creation of Self, founded on a process of growth arising out of an evolutionary interplay between the two realms of sensation and ideation. It also provides valuable insight into Nietzsche's invention of a new art form called dithyrambic drama as a vehicle with which to achieve a true representation of tragedy and therewith resurrect the practice of tragedy. As such, the reiteration also provides insight into how to read a dithyramb and how to practice dithyrambic drama for the purpose of undertaking the world's only dithyrambic tragedy, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," which Nietzsche wrote.

Author: James Chester
ISBN-10: 1735016705
ISBN-13: 9781735016702
Publisher: James Chester Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2020
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.94d