
Episode 119: Nietzsche on Tragedy and the Psychology of Art
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is He a Classicist or a Philologist?
This is only a year earlier than the untruth and lie essay that we did another episode on. But it is decades before the bulk of his coolest work, genealogy of morals. I was the misconception that this was actually his dissertation, but i think it turns out he never wrote a dissertation. People were expecting great things, and i pretty much wrecked his reputation as a classicist. He's a dynamic writer. We generally know something about him, so that helps. He mixes philosophy and humor. Not in this esay, no, god now god knows. It's like your reading that prologue and it's like a nitya, and then you read the then you
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