TRP and 'everything connects"?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Michael Bailey wrote:
> > 1st, I remember at least one good essay by some scholar on how Nietzsche's "Birth
> > of Tragedy" influenced TRP. A book in which N said he 'tried to look at science in the perspective
> > of the artist".....
>
> Walter Benjamin did his doctorate on it, wasn't it?

Well, no. Benjamin's doctoral thesis "The Origin of German Tragic Drama"
concerns German baroque tragedies, not the culture of Ancient Greece.
The thesis is an impressive treatment of ruins, melancholy, and allegory.


Heikki