His 2010 recording of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations topped the non-fiction chart in December 2017 – the same month in which he died.
It is with sadness that we acknowledge the death of Duncan Steen (a.k.a. For Naxos AudioBooks, he read The Middle Way, Meditation – The Buddhist Way and Karma and Rebirth – In a Nutshell, as well as Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and On the Genealogy of Morals, and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. He also edited for publication the lectures and seminars of his teacher Sangharakshita. He is the author of The Middle Way, Meditation – The Buddhist Way and Karma and Rebirth – In a Nutshell (Naxos AudioBooks), and Meditating and Warrior of Peace (Windhorse Publications). He was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order in 1986, and taught meditation and Buddhism at City Lit, the LSE and the West London Buddhist Centre, where he was also chairman. Jinananda) was born in Bedford in 1952 and died in 2017.
The present reading includes this last, his 1871 Preface to Richard Wagner and the original book itself, with its famous discussion of the Apollonian and Dionysian in Greek tragedy.ĭownload PDF booklet More product details ISBN:ĭuncan Steen (a.k.a. Nietzsche later revised his views on Wagner and re-issued The Birth of Tragedy in 1886 under the title The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism, introducing it with An Attempt at a Self-Criticism.
It did little, however, to help his reputation as a scholar his views were controversial and aroused strong criticism in some quarters, while his deliberate espousal of the cause of the composer Richard Wagner was, to say the least, unhelpful. In 1869, at the age of 24, he had been appointed a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel, a remarkable position for one of his age, and the book was his first significant publication. Audio Sample Friedrich Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedyįriedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music was published in 1872.