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Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's the Rebirth of Tragedy in 20 Seconds

Kaufman's footnote says the passage reads like a parody of Wagner but certainly was not meant to be satirical. The rest of section 20 is really just more poetry and a couple we get another like uh reference to Faust here, he writes. It's just sort of Nietzsche expressing his hopes for a rebirth of tragedy um will Kaufman: "Nietzsche saw Schopenhauer's struggle with life as essentially a heroic one"

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