Birth of Tragedy Bibliography (mostly in English, borrowing much from Han-Pile’s bibliography 2006- basically starting from that and adding) 2/18/13
Allison, David B. Reading the New Nietzsche : The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals. (2000)
Bataille, G. (1957), L’e´rotisme. Paris: Editions de Minuit.
—— (1974), The´orie de la religion. Paris: Gallimard.
Bultmann, R. (1953), ‘New Testament and Mythology’, in Hans-Werner Bartsch (ed.), Kerygma and Myth. London: S.P.C.K.
—— (1958), Jesus Christ and Mythology. New York: Scribner.
Burnham, Douglas and Martin Jesinghausen Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy: A Reader’s Guide. London & New York: Continuum 2010.
Clarke, M. (1990), Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Clark, Maudemarie. "Deconstructing The Birth of Tragedy." International Studies in Philosophy 19, 2 (1987): 67-75.
Dannhauser, Werner J. Nietzsche's View of Socrates. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974.
Davis, Bret. “A Socrates who Practices Music: The Dynamic Intertwining of Mythos and Logos, Art and Science in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy,” Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom Anderson, Albert A (ed) 2004 pg.115 -139
De Man, P. (1979), "Genesis and Genealogy (Nietzsche),"Allegories of Reading. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 79-102.
Deleuze, G. (1983), Nietzsche and Philosophy. London: Athlone Press.
Duncan, John. “Culture, Tragedy and Pessimism in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy” (2007) self-published on-line.
Figal, Gunter. “Aesthetically Limited Reason: On Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.” (2000). Philosophy and Tragedy, Sparks, Simon (ed). ( New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. 139-151
Fink, E. (1982), Spiel as Welt Symbol. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart (no English translation).
Geuss, R. (1999), ‘Art and Theodicy’, in his Morality, Culture, History: Essays on German Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gordon, Paul. Tragedy After Nietzsche: Rapturous Superabundance. BH301.T7 G67 2001
Haar, M. (1996), Nietzsche and Metaphysics. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Han-Pile, Beatrice “Nietzsche’s Metaphysics in the Birth of Tragedy” European Journal of Philosophy 14 (3):2006 373–403. Brilliant.
Hatab, Lawrence. “Apollo and Dionysus: Nietzschean Expressions of the Sacred,”
Nietzsche and the Gods Santaniello, Weaver (ed) 2001 pg.45 -56
Hollingdale, R. J. (2001), Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kaufmann, W. (1974), Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Lukacs, G. (1971), The Theory of the Novel: a Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature. London: Merlin Press.
May Keith M., Nietzsche and the Spirit of Tragedy (London: Macmillan, 1990). PN1892 .M39 1990
McDonough, B. T. Nietzsche and Kazantzakis. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1978.
McGinn, Robert E. "Culture as Prophylactic: Nietzsche's 'Birth of Tragedy' as Culture Criticism." Nietzsche Studien 4 (1975): 75-138.
Mistry, Freny. "An Aspect of Nietzsche's Perspectivism in 'Die Geburt der Tragodie'." Nietzsche Studien 8 (1979): 9. 245-69.
Morley, N. (2004), ‘Unhistorical Greeks’, in Paul Bishop (ed.), Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition. Rochester: Camden House.
Nussbaum, M. (1998), ‘The Transfigurations of Intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Dionysus’, in Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell and Daniel W. Conway (eds), Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O'Flaherty, James C., Timothy F. Sellner, and Robert M. Helm, eds. Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976.
Pfeffer, Rose. Nietzsche: Disciple of Dionysus. Lewisburgh, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1972.
Panagopoulus, Nic. Heart of Darkness and The Birth of Tragedy: A Comparative Study (Kardamitsa, Ekdoseis, 2007)
Pletsch, Carl. Young Nietzsche: Becoming a Genius (The Free Press, 1991)
Poellner, P. (1995), Nietzsche and Metaphysics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
—— (1998), ‘Myth, Art and Illusion in Nietzsche’, in M. Bell and P. Poellner (eds) Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Atlanta: Rodopi.
Porter, J. (2000), The Invention of Dionysus: An Essay on the Birth of Tragedy. Stanford: Stanford University Press. “it is not even a foregone conclusion that Nietzsche himself believed, or needed to believe, whatever he wrote” (29).
Porter, James I. Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000). “With careful readings of Nietzsche’s early, mostly unpublished philological writings, Porter argues for the continuity between them and the Birth of Tragedy. (This is contrary to the views of many scholars who see the Birth of Tragedy as a decisive break in Nietzsche’s development.) Porter also argues that the problems that Nietzsche wrestled with in his later writings are to be found in these early writings.” NYPL
Prange, Martine. “Nietzsche's Artistic Ideal of Europe: 'The Birth of Tragedy' in the Spirit of Richard Wagner's Centenary 'Beethoven'-Essay” in Nietzsche und Europa/Nietzsche in Europa, Gerhardt, Volker (ed) (2007) pg.91 -117
Rosenthal, Bernice Glatzer, ed. Nietzsche in Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Sallis, J. (1991), Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Schacht, R. (1992), Nietzsche. London: Routledge.
Schacht, Richard. "Nietzsche's Second Thoughts About Art." Monist 64 (April 1981): 241-6.
Schacht, Richard. "Nietzsche on Art in The Birth of Tragedy." In Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology, edited by Dickie and Sclafani. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1977, 268-312.
Segal, R. A. (1998), ‘The Existentialist Interpretation of Myth’, in M. Bell and P. Poellner (eds), Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Atlanta: Rodopi.
Shestov, Lev. Doestoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1969) PG3415.P5 S513
Silk M. S., and Stern J. P., Nietzsche on Tragedy ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). This is a first-rate commentary, still very worthwhile.
Soll Ivan, "Pessimism and the Tragic View of Life: Reconsiderations
of Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy", in Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
(eds.), Reading Nietzsche ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 104-31. “Soll asserts that Schopenhauer’s influence on the Birth of Tragedy was considerable and that Nietzsche’s assessment that it was minimal should be rejected. The problem of the inevitably of suffering in life, central to the Birth of Tragedy, led Nietzsche to a Schoperhauerian pessimism in spite of his efforts to overcome it.” NYPL
Staten Henry, "The Birth of Tragedy Reconstructed", in Nietzsche's
Voice ( Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Press, 1990), 187-216.
Tejera, N. Nietzsche and Greek Thought. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1987.
Weisberg, Max. Philosophies of Greek Tragedy from Schiller to Nietzsche (VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2008)
White, Hayden. "Nietzsche: the Poetic Defense of History in the Metaphorical Mode." chap. in Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1973.
Wilamowitz-Möllendorff, Ulrich von, “Future Philology! A Reply to The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche,” New Nietzsche Studies 4: 1/2, 2000, 1-32 Famous attack on Nietzsche’s book.
Young, Julian “Richard Wagner and the Birth of The Birth of Tragedy” International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 16 (2), 217–245. Excellent defense of the importance of Wagner to N. contra Kaufmann and Hollingdale. “The main goal of The Birth of Tragedy is, to repeat, to solve the ‘enigma’ of the relation between Wagner’s early and late conceptions of Greek tragedy, i.e. of the great, collective, artwork.” “Does Nietzsche really show that the collective
artwork can both redeem the community by gathering it in self- and life affirmation
and comfort the individual by revealing to him a blissful domain beyond this worthless world of nausea and absurdity?”
Young, Julian Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Young, Julian. The Birth of Tragedy", in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) orig. 1982.