Birth of Tragedy #1: Attempt At Self-Criticism/Preface to Wagner
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Is the Birth of Tragedy Not Something Equally Intoxicating and Befogging?
If you really want to be life affirming and affirm the world, the real world, you have to learn to hang on to your pessimism by learning to laugh. And so that's why he concludes with saying, we have to live in a state of temperament or instinct. He quotes from his own book a, from section 18 a, which is a very interesting quotationat means funny he's quoting his own book in the preference to it, preface to it. But it's to prove a point, am. So he says, he poses the question, is the birth of tragedy itself? This is in his desertiv devil advocates speak that he invokes at the beginning of the
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