Der Fall Wagner
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Sauberer Text
- Umfang:
- ~25.100 Wörter · 119 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APANietzsche. (n.d.). Der Fall Wagner. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/nietzsche/the-case-of-wagner-nietzsche-contra-wagner-and-selected-aphorisms
- MLANietzsche. "Der Fall Wagner." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/nietzsche/the-case-of-wagner-nietzsche-contra-wagner-and-selected-aphorisms.
- ChicagoNietzsche. Der Fall Wagner. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/nietzsche/the-case-of-wagner-nietzsche-contra-wagner-and-selected-aphorisms.
Wovon es handelt
Der Fall Wagner und Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888): das Ende der berühmtesten Scheidung der Kulturgeschichte.
Kontext und Geschichte
Wagner war seit fünf Jahren tot. Nietzsche greift ihn als Symptom an — der décadence, der Romantik, des als Kunst verkleideten Christentums — und kann zugleich nicht verbergen, dass dies die Liebe seines geistigen Lebens war. Am besten liest man es neben Richard Wagner in Bayreuth im Katalog, von zwölf Jahren früher. Englische Übersetzung aus der von Oscar Levy herausgegebenen Gesamtausgabe (1909–1913), der gemeinfreien. Sie ist über hundert Jahre alt, und das merkt man. Das Original ist DEUTSCH, und zitiert werden sollte das Original: der Katalog hat zwei davon, Also sprach Zarathustra und Der Wille zur Macht; für den Rest steht hier nur die Übersetzung.
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I am writing this to relieve my mind. It is not malice alone which makes me praise Bizet at the expense of Wagner in this essay. Amid a good deal of jesting I wish to make one point clear which does not admit of levity. To turn my back on Wagner was for me a piece of fate, to get to like anything else whatever afterwards was for me a triumph. Nobody, perhaps, had ever been more dangerously involved in Wagnerism, nobody had defended himself more obstinately against it, nobody had ever been so overjoyed at ridding himself of it. A long history!—Shall I give it a name?—If I were a moralist, who knows what I might not call it! Perhaps a piece of _self-mastery_.—But the philosopher does not like the moralist, neither does he like high-falutin’ words.… What is the first and last thing that a philosopher demands of himself? To overcome his age in himself, to become “timeless.” With what then does the philosopher have the greatest fight? With all that in him which makes him the child of his time. Very well then! I am just as much a child of my age as Wagner—_i.e._, I am a decadent. The only difference is that I recognised the fact, that I struggled against it. The philosopher in me struggled against it. My greatest preoccupation hitherto has been the problem of _decadence_, and I had reasons for this. “Good and evil” form only a playful subdivision of this problem. If one has trained one’s eye to detect the symptoms of decline, one also understands morality,—one understands what lies concealed beneath its holiest names and tables of values: _e.g._, _impoverished_ life, the will to nonentity, great exhaustion. Morality _denies_ life.……