Abstract

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