ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on 19th-century philosopher – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. In 1872, Nietzsche published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, which included a laudatory section on Richard Wagner's music. Nietzsche's style of writing in epigrams, aphorisms, stories, poetry, and essays virtually defies an editor to systematically summarize his thought. In The Birth of Tragedy, translated by Francis Golffing, Nietzsche presents a distinction between Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies in art. The Apollonian tendency represents the harmony and restraint exempliFLed by Greek sculpture and architecture. Doric art has immortalized Apollo's majestic rejection of all license. But resistance became difficult, even impossible, as soon as similar urges began to break forth from the deep substratum of Hellenism itself.
