NIETZSCHE: DA TRAGÉDIA GREGA À FILOSOFIA TRÁGICA

Although Dionysus occupies a central place in The birth of tragedy from the spirit of music, he only appears again as a nucleus of Nietzsche’s reflections in the period of the conclusion of Thus spoke Zarathustra. In his latest books, Nietzsche declared to be a Dionysus’ disciple, put “Dionysus versus the Crucified”, and the philosophy of the will to power and the eternal recurrence had found in Dionysus its mirror. However, the intensification of the reflection about Dionysus since 1884 is exactly what leads the philosopher to modify the title of his book’s second edition for The birth of tragedy or Hellenism and Pessimism. This modification means that Nietzsche passes, then, from the tragedy Greek as an aesthetic problem, to a conception that was being developed along the years in his thought: the tragic philosophy.