Nietzsche contra Wagner - Wikipedia
Nietzsche contra Wagner; Out of the Files of a Psychologist is a critical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, composed of selections he chose from among his earlier works. The selections are assembled in this essay in order to focus on Nietzsche's thoughts …
Why Did Nietzsche Break With Wagner? - ThoughtCo
Mar 4, 2019 · Wagner and Nietzsche saw each other for the last time on November 5th, 1876. In the years that followed, they became both personally and philosophically estranged, although his sister Elisabeth remained on friendly terms with the Wagners and their circle.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Mar 17, 2017 · Nietzsche’s friendship with Wagner (and Cosima Liszt Wagner) lasted into the mid-1870s, and that friendship—together with their ultimate break—were key touchstones in his personal and professional life.
Nietzsche’s Life and Works - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 30, 1997 · In The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche “declares war” upon Richard Wagner, whose music is characterized as the epitome of modern cultural achievement, but also crucially as sick and decadent. The work is a brilliant display of Nietzsche’s talents as a music critic, and includes memorable ridicule of Wagner’s theatrical style, reflections on ...
Apr 7, 2008 · In the “Ecce Homo,” Nietzsche's autobiography,— a book which from cover to cover and line for line is sincerity itself— we learn what Wagner actually meant to Nietzsche. On pages 41, 44, 84, 122, 129, &c, we cannot doubt that Nietzsche is speaking from his heart,— and what does he say?— In impassioned tones
Friedrich Nietzsche - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 30, 1997 · Wagner and Nietzsche shared an enthusiasm for Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche — who had been composing piano, choral and orchestral music since he was a teenager — admired Wagner for his musical genius and magnetic personality.
Nietzsche on Wagner | Nietzsche on Art and Life - Oxford …
The author suggests that within the context of Nietzsche’s attack on Wagner, he gives the central place in aesthetic judgment to the distinction between healthy and sickly forms of human life. Wagner’s music, he suggests, is, in Nietzsche’s view, the cause and effect of a sickness.
10 - The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner
Feb 5, 2013 · In general, we find that Nietzsche's treatment of Wagner in these two books consistently touches on the following themes: first, his aversion to Wagner was neither recent nor opportunistic; Type Chapter
Complexity and Ambivalence in Nietzsche’s Relationship with Wagner
Nov 1, 2018 · The first involves Nietzsche’s adoption of Wagnerian ideology, especially anti-Judaism, in the late 1860s and early 1870s. The second deals with Nietzsche’s actual activities and sentiments regarding the inaugural Bayreuth festival in 1876 and his later reports of these activities and sentiments.
11 - Critique as passion and polemic: Nietzsche and Wagner
The younger Nietzsche’s attitude toward Wagner intertwined passion with critique, just as passion is merged with polemics in the later writings. That is why Mann could perceive the late polemics as really “a panegyric in reverse, another form of eulogy.”