Le Cas Wagner
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~25 100 mots · 119 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APANietzsche. (n.d.). Le Cas Wagner. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/nietzsche/the-case-of-wagner-nietzsche-contra-wagner-and-selected-aphorisms
- MLANietzsche. "Le Cas Wagner." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/nietzsche/the-case-of-wagner-nietzsche-contra-wagner-and-selected-aphorisms.
- ChicagoNietzsche. Le Cas Wagner. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/nietzsche/the-case-of-wagner-nietzsche-contra-wagner-and-selected-aphorisms.
De quoi il s'agit
Le Cas Wagner et Nietzsche contre Wagner (1888) : la fin du divorce le plus célèbre de l'histoire de la culture.
Contexte et histoire
Wagner était mort depuis cinq ans. Nietzsche l'attaque comme symptôme — de décadence, de romantisme, de christianisme déguisé en art — et en même temps il ne peut pas cacher que ce fut l'amour de sa vie intellectuelle. Cela se lit le mieux à côté de Richard Wagner à Bayreuth, au catalogue, de douze ans plus tôt. Traduction anglaise tirée de l'édition complète dirigée par Oscar Levy (1909-1913), celle qui est du domaine public. Elle a plus d'un siècle et cela se voit. L'original est ALLEMAND, et c'est lui qu'il faut citer : le catalogue en contient deux, Also sprach Zarathustra et Der Wille zur Macht ; pour le reste, seule la traduction est ici.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
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.……