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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher and author. Born into a line of Protestant churchman, Nietzsche studied Classical literature and language before becoming a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He became a philosopher after reading Schopenhauer, who suggested that God does not exist, and that life is filled with pain and suffering. Nietzsche’s first work of prominence was The Birth of Tragedy in 1872, which contained new theories regarding the origins of classical Greek culture. From 1883 to 1885 Nietzsche composed his most famous work, Thus Spake Zarathustra, in which he famously proclaimed that “God is dead.” He went on to release several more notable works including Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals, both of which dealt with the origins of moral values. Nietzsche suffered a nervous breakdown in 1889 and passed away in 1900, but not before giving us his most famous quote, “From life's school of war: what does not kill me makes me stronger.”
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The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Complete Works of
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
VOLUME 16 OF 24
The Case of Wagner
Parts Edition
By Delphi Classics, 2015
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‘The Case of Wagner’
Friedrich Nietzsche: Parts Edition (in 24 parts)
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
IN 24 VOLUMES
Parts Edition Contents
The Philosophical Writings
1, Homer and the Classical Philology
2, On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
3, The Greek State and Other Fragments
4, The Relation Between a Schopenhauerian Philosophy and a German Culture
5, Homer’s Contest
6, The Birth of Tragedy
7, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
8, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
9, Thoughts Out of Season
10, Human, All Too Human
11, The Dawn of Day
12, The Joyful Wisdom
13, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
14, Beyond Good and Evil
15, The Genealogy of Morals
16, The Case of Wagner
17, The Twilight of the Idols
18, The Antichrist
19, Nietzsche Contra Wagner
20, The Will to Power
21, We Philologists
The Poetry
22, Collected Poems
The Autobiography
23, Ecce Homo
The Criticism
24, The Criticism
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The Case of Wagner
A MUSICIAN’S PROBLEM
Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici
Originally published in 1888, this short book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche’s rupture with the German composer, who, according to Nietzsche, had involved himself too much in the Völkisch movement and anti-Semitism. Nietzsche argues that Wagner’s music is no longer represented as a possible philosophical effect
and Wagner is ironically compared to Georges Bizet. However, Nietzsche presents Wagner as a particular symptom of the ‘disease’ of nihilism affecting Europe at the time. The Case of Wagner reveals Nietzsche as a capable music-critic, providing the setting for some of his further reflections on the nature of art and its relationship to the future health of humanity.
Richard Wagner (1813-1883), the famous German composer, theatre director, polemicist and conductor, who is primarily known for his operas.
CONTENTS
Translator’s Preface.
Preface To The Third Edition
Preface
Postscript
Second Postscript
Epilogue
Preface
Wherein I Admire Wagner.
Wherein I Raise Objections.
Wagner As A Danger.
A Music Without A Future.
We Antipodes.
Where Wagner Is At Home.
Wagner As The Apostle Of Chastity.
How I Got Rid Of Wagner.
The Psychologist Speaks.
Epilogue.
Selected Aphorisms from Nietzsche’s Retrospect of his Years of Friendship with Wagner.
Translator’s Preface.
Nietzsche wrote the rough draft of The Case of Wagner
in Turin, during the month of May 1888; he completed it in Sils Maria towards the end of June of the same year, and it was published in the following autumn. "Nietzsche contra Wagner" was written about the middle of December 1888; but, although it was printed and corrected before the New Year, it was not published until long afterwards owing to Nietzsche’s complete breakdown in the first days of 1889.
In reading these two essays we are apt to be deceived, by their virulent and forcible tone, into believing that the whole matter is a mere cover for hidden fire, — a mere blind of æsthetic discussion concealing a deep and implacable personal feud which demands and will have vengeance. In spite of all that has been said to the contrary, many people still hold this view of the two little works before us; and, as the actual facts are not accessible to every one, and rumours are more easily believed than verified, the error of supposing that these pamphlets were dictated by personal animosity, and even by Nietzsche’s envy of Wagner in his glory, seems to be a pretty common one. Another very general error is to suppose that the point at issue here is not one concerning music at all, but concerning religion. It is taken for granted that the aspirations, the particular quality, the influence, and the method of an art like music, are matters quite distinct from the values and the conditions prevailing in the