Nietzsche on tragedy: first and last thoughts
Nietzsche on tragedy: first and last thoughts
Nietzsche is often said to have started out as a Schopenhauerian metaphysician of some kind before leaving Schopenhauer behind him, and, by the end of his sane life, metaphysics too. His first and last thoughts about tragedy, however, sit uneasily with this narrative. The late thoughts are simply too close to the early ones for the story to accommodate them-not for their Schopenhauerianism, but for the strongly metaphysical flavour that they appear to share. The argument of the present paper is that the appearance is veridical, and that attempts to explain away the metaphysical flavour of the later remarks cannot succeed. The paper concludes with a brief diagnosis of why Nietzsche's final thoughts about tragedy, in Twilight of the Idols, so unignorably recall the ones expressed in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy.
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Ridley, Aaron
64d82169-aa92-4352-975d-2ef8bb3f2cc7
1 July 2019
Ridley, Aaron
64d82169-aa92-4352-975d-2ef8bb3f2cc7
Ridley, Aaron
(2019)
Nietzsche on tragedy: first and last thoughts.
Monist, 102 (3), , [onz012].
(doi:10.1093/monist/onz012).
Abstract
Nietzsche is often said to have started out as a Schopenhauerian metaphysician of some kind before leaving Schopenhauer behind him, and, by the end of his sane life, metaphysics too. His first and last thoughts about tragedy, however, sit uneasily with this narrative. The late thoughts are simply too close to the early ones for the story to accommodate them-not for their Schopenhauerianism, but for the strongly metaphysical flavour that they appear to share. The argument of the present paper is that the appearance is veridical, and that attempts to explain away the metaphysical flavour of the later remarks cannot succeed. The paper concludes with a brief diagnosis of why Nietzsche's final thoughts about tragedy, in Twilight of the Idols, so unignorably recall the ones expressed in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy.
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