The Spectacle of Suffering: On Tragedy in Nietzsche’s Daybreak

PhaenEx 1 (2):71-93 (2006)
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This paper argues that the passages on tragedy in Nietzsche's Daybreak , taken together, articulate a conception of tragic psychology that plays a pivotal role in the overarching argument of the book. I maintain that in Daybreak , Nietzsche construes tragedy as the embodiment of a superior alternative to the (modern, Christian) moral worldview that is the main target of his critique, and that in the curious phenomenon of tragic pleasure, Nietzsche identifies a potent antidote to what he calls the Circean seductions of morality

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reprint Bartscherer, Thomas (2007) "The Spectacle of Suffering: On Tragedy in Nietzsche’s _Daybreak_". Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 1(2):

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