This book is a concise and historicized analysis of the development of Nietzsche's thought on the subject of tragedy.

Translator's Preface
Preface
1. Nietzsche's Place in the Aesthetics of Post-Modernity
2. The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche
3. Necessity and Contingency in Nietzsche's Early Writings
4. Nietzsche and Stoicism
5. The Role of the Idea of the Eternal Recurrence in the Genesis of the Project for the Revaluation of All Values
6. Nihilism According to Nietzsche
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