The study of tragedy is central to a humanistic education
To better prepare undergraduates for life’s complexities, place tragedy front and center in humanities classes. In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal 1872 study of the origins and significance of Greek tragedy, the German philosopher called for the rebirth of tragic art to reawaken the profound existential insights and revitalizing energies that the ancient Greek tragedies once provided.
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