Mito & música: o trágico no jovem Nietzsche

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to pursue the concept of the tragic couple in the Philosophy of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Through the study of his early works devoted to philosophical reflection we realized that the idea of the “tragic” is stated as the central focus and win the job prospects coming to the teacher of Classical Philology would become one of the most important names in contemporary philosophy. However, even protecting the value they have Nietzschean reflections on the problem of the tragic, his philosophy passed down to posterity under aegis of other problems he studied, and thus emphasizing ideas that seen most central to the tragic. It is to remedy the need for a more intensive reflection on the work of the young Nietzsche that this research draws attention and has been the effort to bring understanding of the fundamental ideas of the philosopher before the elaboration of the concepts of “superman”, “eternal recurrence” and “will to power”. For this we are referring on The birth of Tragedy in the Spirit of Music because we believe that it faces the main ideas converge to the young Nietzsche. And we want to emphasize in special here, through discussion about religion, is the centrality of myth and music as elements without which the tragedy cannot be thought, and therefore cannot get to the heart of what he called a “tragic”. Nietzsche organizes the ideas of myth, cult and chorus to preserve a relationship of authenticity to Greek tragedy, authenticity that reflects a particular vision and truer reality of the world. The dissolution of this triad results in the appearance of a type of civilization that departs from the true value of the whole reality of both the world and of life. Thus, Nietzsche, while bringing forth the German tradition of rereading of Greek classics, builds a bridge between authentic Greek life and modern life, Socratic, clumsy to understand the myth and largely devoid of the ability to listen and understand music. This relationship is structured from the configuration of two basic concepts – Apollonian and Dionysian – which will serve as a watershed for the Nietzschean thought, allowing a reinterpretation not only of aesthetic values of the modern world, but more completely, an iconoclastic the very condition of possibility of thinking the man after the twilight of their gods.