Nietzsche's early unpublished work on pre-Socratic philosophy — Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks — arguing that the pre-Socratics expressed a tragic, life-affirming wisdom later destroyed by Socratic rationalism.
Argues that Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides each developed a total philosophy expressing the tragic Greek spirit; Socrates's rationalism killed this tragic wisdom — the thesis that underlies The Birth of Tragedy.
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