Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche
A sharp, personal polemic in which the writer breaks with a former idol to denounce a celebrated composer and his circle, arguing that their music-drama and theatricality exemplify cultural decadence and a sickly moralism; the essay links this aesthetic to Christian and nationalist tendencies that invert life-affirming values, promotes ressentiment, and calls for a renewal of art grounded in vitality, individual strength, and honest affirmation of existence.
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- 1888
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