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The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Shaun Whiteside (Translator), Michael Tanner (Editor), Friedrich /. Whiteside (Trans) Nietzsche Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-14-043339-2 / 0140433392 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043339-5 / 9780140433395 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apoll |