Description: NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Nietzsche’s Werke Band I: Die Geburt der Tragodie (Birth of Tragedy, fourth ed.); Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen (Untimely Meditations, third ed.). Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1895. 1 blank leaf with half-title on verso + TP + tissue guard and frontis-portrait + 1 leaf = facsimile of handwritten note + 1 leaf = inhalt + TP = Geburt der Tragödie + half-title + 1 - 589 + [i] - xxii. Octavo. Fourth and Third editions. In the first collected edition of Nietzsche’s work, his first two books combine to form the first volume: Birth of Tragedy (originally published in 1872, revised in 1886, here in its fourth edition) and Untimely Meditations (originally published in four installments from 1874 - 1876, here in its third edition). BIRTH OF TRAGEDY: Nietzsche argues that the tragedy of Ancient Greece was the highest form of art due to its mixture of both Apollonian and Dionysian elements into one seamless whole, allowing the spectator to experience the full spectrum of the human condition. The Dionysian element was to be found in the music of the chorus, while the Apollonian element was found in the dialogue which gave a concrete symbolism that balanced the Dionysiac revelry. Basically, the Apollonian spirit was able to give form to the abstract Dionysian. UNTIMELY MEDITATIONS 1 - 4: The first Untimely Meditation was David Strauss der Bekenner und der Schriftsteller (David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer) in which Nietzsche viciously attacked Strauss’ most recently published book, Der alte und der neue Glaube (The Old and the New Faith), which advocated the rejection of the Christian faith in favor of a Darwinian, materialistic and patriotic world-view. Nietzsche accuses Strauss of being a "Cultural Philistine" and denounces him as the exemplar par-excellence of pseudo-culture. The second book, Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil, Der Historie für das Leben (The Use and Disadvantage of History for Life), attacked the then current faith in historical research that was one of Nietzsche's major complaints with contemporary German culture and a topic to which he returned with some regularity in his later works. The third Untimely Meditation was entitled Schopenhauer als Erzieher (Schopenhauer as Educator) and it took up the topic of self-perfection and set up the philosopher Schopenhauer – then one of Nietzsche’s philosophical heroes – as a paradigm of self-direction. The last book in this series, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, was released to coincide with the very first performance at the Bayreuth Festival in July of 1876. This is the last of Nietzsche’s works that mentions Wagner favorably and even here the picture presented of Wagner shows some signs of the troubles to come. In Nietzsche’s view, the creation of Bayreuth was representative of The New Empire and had become one of the cultural centers. CONDITION: Very good in original Naumann binding: half-leather with marbled boards. Some edge wear and scuffing. Marbled endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked.
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