Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical debut begins with the proclamation of an “aesthetic
metaphysics” whose accomplishment consists in an “aesthetic justification of the world”(BT …

In Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy), Nietzsche emphasises that “it is only as an
aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified”. The fusion of …

In his first published work, The Birth of Tragedy (BT), Nietzsche famously introduces the
concept of an 'aesthetic justification'(ästhetische Rechtfertigung):'our highest dignity lies in …

Nietzsche's first book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), was his attempt to revitalise modern
German culture using the example of pre-Socratic Greek culture. Although widely accepted …

If it is true as Borges has said that every great author generates his own precursors, the
same might well be said of literary and philosophical movements. Perhaps it is not so …

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche gave a neat description of his view of man as the
unification of the two poles of creature and creator (Nietzsche, 1973, p. 155). This …

It seems almost inconsistent with Nietzsche's interpretation of existence to claim that his
initial philosophical position was an unconditional affirmation of idealism as he rediscovered …

This dissertation is born out of the simple desire to understand what the German philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) meant when he claimed throughout his corpus that …

It is often assumed that the main assertions of the Birth of Tragedy about the Apollonian, the
Dionysian, and more generally the function of art, rest on an implicit core of …

Enlightenment, who manages to further enlighten himself about the themes of the
Enlightenment. He effectively broadens our understanding through insight into its historical …