Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

This book contains Nietzsche's brief and brilliant thoughts on the Greek philosophers who wrote before Plato and Aristotle. Nietzsche gets right to the point, and with extraordinary eloquence, he describes each philosopher's greatest revelation. There is an overall narrative as each succeeding thinker goes further than, or expands on the philosophy that went before.So this short book goes leaping from peak to peak, as the narrator keeps setting off verbal lightening bolts. It's exhilarating, and the climb gets steep at times.Nietzsche in his preface describes the aim of this book: "The task is to bring to light what we must ever love and honor and what no subsequent enlightenment can take away: great individual human beings."Nietzsche sometimes writes as a philologist, sometimes as a philosopher, and sometimes as a poet -- especially when the metaphors start arriving in torrents.The English translation is excellent. The introduction provides historic and cultural background, and quotes some beautiful and revealing passages culled from Nietzsche's unpublished papers.

This is the one of young Nietzsche's most important works, and unfortunately the less known among the average readers of this emblematic and indispensable philosopher. This rather brief book, was published by the time he had written the "Birth of Tragedy in the Spirit of Music" (1872). Notwithstanding its "untimeliness", this essay will establish for good, the hermeneutic "template" -so to say-, of how the mature Nietzsche will approach, read and reinterpret the great figures of the philophical Western tradition.byDr. Armando Cruz-Cortes

A little known early book by Nietzsche that shows his great mind at work. Particularly good at exposing the silly idea of "Being."

Great seller! The content was what I expected.

Brilliant translation of a brilliant thinker and his brilliant early ideas. Good introduction.

Very enjoyable and understandable. Not by any means a philosophical exegesis, but rather more of an essay about the preplatonics.

Nietzsche is a man of genius and "God is dead" philosophy is amazing. This review on ancient greek work is amazing. i would recommend this to any body studying philosophy.

I got it right on!!! Good service and quality. I certainly recommend it.Very deep into Greek culture, excellent writing

nietzsche abandoned his project as he couldnt complete the "dance of personalities" that he had mapped out. he had hoped to isolate and psychologize the presocratics, but failed and so never published this. it also fails to specify what exactly makes the thought of the period tragic. but its a cute and fun little tract never the less.