J. P. Stern

Griffiths

Four Quartets

T S Eliot

A Study of Nietzsche

David Baguley

L'Assommoir is analysed as a social and political novel and in the context of its repercussions in the history of the novel.

L'Assommoir

Zola

M. S. Silk

The first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), this important volume by M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern examines the work in detail: its place in Nietzsche's philosophical career; its value as an account of ancient Greek culture; its place in the history of German ideas, and its value as a theory of tragedy and music. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Lesley Chamberlain, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this accessible study has been revived for a new generation of readers.

Nietzsche on Tragedy

Completed shortly before Professor Stern's death in 1991, this book studies works by twelve major writers of German modernism, including Thomas Mann, Musil, Brecht and Rilke, in relation to the history of the twentieth century. It explores the theme of the "dear purchase," an ideal of moral strenuousness and sacrifice seen as characteristic of Germany after Nietzsche, and reveals the underlying flaw in this notion as a self-justifying value. Finally, it juxtaposes Mann's Felix Krull and Kafka's story "Josephine" as a deliverance from the value-system of the title.

A Theme in German Modernism

The Dear Purchase

This influential book was the first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest work, The Birth of Tragedy (1872).

This study of German prose from the death of Goethe to the heyday of the Wilhelminian Empire argues that nineteenth-century German prose is characterized by a particular combination of the prophetic and the archaic, of the existential and the parochial, and is only partially and sometimes not at all related to the social and political realities of the age.

Seven Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Re-Interpretations

The first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest (and extraordinary) book, The Birth of tragedy.

J. P. Stern

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