Drawing on historical and critical text studies, the author analyzes decisive factors of the relationship between art and science in Nietzsche's work. The idea of a "tragedy of knowing" as the culmination of aesthetic tragedy becomes the leitmotif of the proposed interpretation. Venturelli thereby also illuminates aspects of Nietzsche's special place in modern philosophical discourse.

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Aldo Venturelli is Professor for New German Literature at the University of Urbino, Italy.