Such burials are customarily accompanied by all the displays of mourning; for we mourn ourselves, when we name the lost potential of sensibility and attitude which the defunct form incarnated. In his Birth of Tragedy, which is really about the death of tragedy, Nietzsche blamed the radically new prestige of knowledge and conscious intelligence—which arose in ancient Greece with the figure of Socrates—for the waning of instinct and of the sense of reality which made tragedy impossible.
这类葬礼习惯性地伴以悲悼之感的流露；这是因为，当我们陈说这曾经体现于已死的形式中而现在业已失去的那种感受力和态度的潜能时，我们是在悲悼自 身。尼采在《悲剧的诞生》这部实际上是谈论悲剧的死亡的著作中，把知识和自觉的理智——他们随古希腊的苏格拉底而兴起……所获得的这种全新的影响力归咎为 本能和现实感的衰退。
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Susan Sontag “Against Interpretation - The death of tragedy”
苏珊·桑塔格《反对阐释 - 悲剧的消亡》
November 7, 2007
