Dionysia Metaphysica: A Reiteration of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy - Paperback

by James Chester (Author)

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche entitled the first draft of "The Birth of Tragedy" (BT) as "The Dionysian Vision of the World." Dionysia Metaphsyica presents a reiteration of BT as, indeed, a view of the world, specifically the inner world of man, which is a metaphysica. BT is not Nietzsche's scholarly view of ancient Greek culture during the time in history when the practice of tragedy arose as a new art form. But most books about BT have focused precisely on this scholarly view. Viewed instead as a metaphysica, and using a translation of Nietzsche's original writing word for word, this reiteration elucidates a theory of life within human being as art in the form of mythopoeia, or the creation of Self, founded on a process of growth arising out of an evolutionary interplay between the two realms of sensation and ideation. It also provides valuable insight into Nietzsche's invention of a new art form called dithyrambic drama as a vehicle with which to achieve a true representation of tragedy and therewith resurrect the practice of tragedy. As such, the reiteration also provides insight into how to read a dithyramb and how to practice dithyrambic drama for the purpose of undertaking the world's only dithyrambic tragedy, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," which Nietzsche wrote.