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The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

2019-10-10 18:30:39

The Case Of Wagner is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German artist, who had involved himself too much, in Nietzsche's eyes, in the Völkisch movement and antisemitism. His music is no longer represen ... Read more
The Case Of Wagner is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German artist, who had involved himself too much, in Nietzsche's eyes, in the Völkisch movement and antisemitism. His music is no longer represented as a possible "philosophical affect," and Wagner is ironically compared to Georges Bizet. However, Nietzsche presents Wagner as only a particular symptom of a broader "disease" that is affecting Europe: that is, nihilism. The book shows Nietzsche as a capable music-critic, and provides the setting for some of his further reflections on the nature of art and its relationship to the future health of humanity. Less

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File size104.604 KB
Print pages120
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date1971-02-05
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1547205981
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual histo...

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