Nietzsche and the Communicative Ecology of Terror: Part2
THE LOGIC OF TERROR AND SYNTAX OF EMPIRE
In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche presents a critique of the intellectual development of the Socratic intellect as it generates an inevitable downward spiral from epistemic optimism, based on logic, to pessimism based on an acceptance of logicés limits, and .nally to the tragic wisdom of an irreducibly fractured consciousness. He begins with the expansion of Socratic knowledge into the European tradition and thence to the world:
In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche presents a critique of the intellectual development of the Socratic intellect as it generates an inevitable downward spiral from epistemic optimism, based on logic, to pessimism based on an acceptance of logicés limits, and .nally to the tragic wisdom of an irreducibly fractured consciousness. He begins with the expansion of Socratic knowledge into the European tradition and thence to the world:
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2003
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