{"product_id":"the-invention-of-dionysus-9780804736992","title":"The Invention of Dionysus","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. These continuities are displayed above all in the entanglement of his surface narratives, in the self-consuming artifice of his writing, in the interplay of his voices, posturings, and ironies--in a word, in his staging of meaning rather than in his advocacy of one position or another.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author shows that many of the substantive elements of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e are reminiscent of Nietzsche's earlier revisions of philology and that they anticipate the later writings: the inversion of the Dionysian and Appollinian domains; the interest in the atomistic challenge to Platonism (one of Nietzsche's lifelong concerns); and the theory of the all-too-human subject that emerges as a cultural anthropology, a hauntingly present reminder of human pretensions and their limits, which is likewise a thread that runs through the whole of Nietzsche's oeuvre, critically undoing what his philosophy appears to erect. The author argues that the coherence of Nietzsche's writings up to and including \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e is incontestable. It points to a fact that needs to be turned to account in any reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, namely that Nietzsche is a most unreliable witness to his own meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first parts of the study focus on broader issues: the relation of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e to the later writings; the problems of what the author calls \"the metaphysics of appearances\" (as opposed to the identification of the metaphysical as a realm lurking \"behind\" appearances); and the appearance--the apparition--of metaphysics in both the early and late works. In the latter parts of the study, the focus falls more narrowly on the formal and thematic complications in the narrative of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e. This book, the author argues, is a self-standing, complexly organized, and complete piece of imagining that needs to be examined on its own terms. And so while the surrounding philosophical reflections that Nietzsche made prior to and at the time of \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e are brought in as needed, for instance the notes on Kant, Schopenhauer, and Lange, the primary interest lies in the self-presentation of the work itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James I. Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804736992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 1458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames I. Porter is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eConstructions of the Classical Body\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eNietzsche and the Philology of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 1999).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":41261870022771,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":215.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_96c512ab-27b2-44ad-9fef-fd4f56140326.jpg?v=1705502241","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-invention-of-dionysus-9780804736992","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}