Introduction; further reading; "The Birth of Tragedy"; attempt at self-criticism; preface to Richard Wagner; the birth of tragedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844, the son of a
Lutheran clergyman. At 24 he was appointed to the chair of
classical philology at Basle University, where he stayed until
forced by his health to retire in 1879. Here, he wrote all his
literature, including Thus Spake Zarathustra, and developed his
idea of the Superman. He became insane in 1889 and remained so
until his death in 1900.
Shaun Whiteside has translated widely from French, German and
Italian. Michael Tanner is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge. He is particularly interested in Wagner and Nietzsche.
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