Música, solidão e tempo: perspectivas de tragédias nietzschianas

Abstract

The Greek tragedy was Nietzsche's concern since his earliest writings. The philosopher believed that in interpreting the origin, structure, and decline of ancient theater he could then understand the courses of Western culture. In his first work, The Birth of Tragedy, influenced by the Richard Wagner's aesthetics and Schopenhauer's philosophy, he bonds Greek tragedy to metaphysical symbols apollonian and aionysian, so begining the project of to construct a tragic philosophy, that is, a philosophy essentially affirmative. However, Nietzsche breaks with his thinking, moves away from Wagner and Schopenhauer, but does not abandon the project of a tragic-affirmative philosophy. Knowing this, this dissertation will be divided into two parts: 1) analyze the first phase of nietzschean tragic thinking, paying special attention to the role of music for the origin and effect of tragedy. 2) to show that the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the crowning of the nietzschean tragic project; this work was written as a tragedy whose center of gravity is the experimentation of Loneliness as the intrinsic human condition and of Time as eternal return. For this, it will be essential to dismantle every negative character that the Loneliness accumulated through the Western tradition based on gregarious values.