NIETZSCHE: A CHRONOLOGICAL EXEGESIS OF HIS PUBLISHED WORKS - PART THREE OF A FOUR-PART EXCURSUS ON WAGNERS MEISTERSINGER VON NUERNBERG

In what may be bad news for some, I proved unable to round off the “excursus” from this lecture-series’ main course - a chapter-by-chapter reading of ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ - even in a third two-hour-plus session. This audio, then, consists, besides in a few ‘sub-excurses’ into such areas as Kleinian psychoanalysis, just in a ‘setting of the stage’ for an actual line-by-line analysis of the important second scene of the third act of Die Meistersinger, from which Nietzsche cites in the first chapter of his 1872 book.