A Study Of Nietzsche's Views On Tragedy Through The Analysis Of The Tragedy Of Birth

This paper aims to explore into Nietzsche's views on tragedy which are mainly articulated in one of his early masterpieces The Birth of Tragedy, in which Nietzsche gives a philosophical interpretation of tragedy through his thinking of art.The fact that the previous western scholars usually interpreted The Birth of Tragedy from one dimensional philosophical perspective leads to a confusion of his views on tragedy and those on philosophy, which fails to provide a convincing understanding of his tragedy theory. With an aim to solve this problem, this paper, adopting the "other" theory of postmodern philosopher Levinas and based upon the theory of art as the subject, makes an attempt to launch a multidimensional interpretation of Nietzsche's views on tragedy from the "other" vintage points such as philosophy, aesthetics, ethnics, religion and mythology.While interpreting the work from the "other" point of view, the paper also delimits the essence of tragedy per se by confirming the "otherness", thus achieving the goal of the self-confirmation of tragedy from multi angles and dimensions. The paper come to conclusion with the statement that taken as a new philosophy of tragedy, Nietzsche's views on tragedy give prominence to vigor of life and assumes the ability to integrate multiple cultures.