Nietzsche’s Centaur
Bernard Williams, 4 June 1981
Nietzsche on Tragedy
by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern.
Cambridge, 441 pp., £27.50, March 1981,0 521 23262 7 Show More
by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern.
Cambridge, 441 pp., £27.50, March 1981,
Nietzsche: A Critical Life
by Ronald Hayman.
Weidenfeld, 424 pp., £18.50, March 1980,0 297 77636 3 Show More
by Ronald Hayman.
Weidenfeld, 424 pp., £18.50, March 1980,
Nietzsche. Vol. 1: The Will to Power as Art
by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell.
Routledge, 263 pp., £11.50, March 1981,0 7100 0744 2 Show More
by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell.
Routledge, 263 pp., £11.50, March 1981,
“... embodied only in the earlier period of the Greek Classical Age – above all, in the tragedians Aeschylus and Sophocles. Of these, Nietzsche tends to emphasise Aeschylus, who was indeed the earlier, but (as Silk and Stern point out) it is certainly Sophocles who most clearly and unpityingly embodies what Nietzsche had in ... ”