Title: The Problem of Cultural Origins and Apt Metaphors
Review: This work is Nietzsche's first major publicaiton. In it, he is not yet the philosopher he would become a decade later. "The Birth of Tragedy" presents an interesting account of the tragedy of the Greeks--its origins and function. Nietzsche's contention seems to be that, in addition to being rational and rationalistic, the Greeks were strong enough to face the irrational, or Dyonisian, element of life. And they used tragedy to embrace that necessary element. As a powerful metaphor, Nietzsche's account of tragedy is compelling, but I do not know whether this can be regarded as the real cultural origin of the tragedy.
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