A review by alexryan3
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, Shaun Whiteside, Michael Tanner

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

The parts that I understood were excellent. I found the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian aspects of human life the most interesting and felt that’s the part that the average reader can most relate to. I also found his further tangents of criticism of Socrates and his call for the German spirit to be revitalized to be fascinating, although the latter didn’t really feel like it had much to do with the other contents of the book. My first book I’ve read written by Nietzsche and I’m interested in reading more