Having as a reference the work The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, it is our purpose to explicit the characteristics of Nietzsche's conception of tragedy based on a double movement: 1) Reconstruction of the first theses of the first paragraphs of the abovementioned work; 2) Demonstration of the link between those theses and the aesthetic German tradition of the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th century. It is thus enhanced and revised Nietzsche's intense dialogue with that tradition and it is shown the innovations and the radicality of his interpretation of tragedy.
Nietzsche; Aesthetics; Tragedy