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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Ajzenstat, S. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lawrence, Jeff | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T17:06:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T17:06:03Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2014-03-17 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1999-05 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/8855 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 9932 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 5347223 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/14025 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>This thesis offers an interpretation of a passage from section 18 of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. In the passage, Nietzsche makes two puzzling claims which have generated interest in the recent secondary literature: (1) he says that the effect of tragedy is an illusion, and (2) he equates tragic culture with Buddhism. Some commentators have argued that these two claims contradict the book's central theses. I canvass two such readings: Maudemarie Clark's "standard interpretation" and Paul de Man's "postmodernist interpretation." I examine and reject both readings on the grounds that they fail to interpret some of Nietzsche's key terminology correctly. In opposition to these interpretations, I then formulate a more positive reading of section 18 which establishes that both claims are actually consistent with the rest of the text.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.title | Tragedy and Affirmation | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Philosophy | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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