Beschrijving
Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage to show why he mattered so much to Nietzsche. Looking at both The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner, they identify and define the trajectory of a number of overarching themesmodernity, decadence and Wagner as the sign of decline within Nietzsche’s work as a wholeand then demonstrate how they crystallise into Nietzsche’s final and most substantial discussion of Wagner in The Case of Wagner.Assuming no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or the texts, they offer a chapter-by-chapter interpretation of The Case of Wagner addressing especially why Wagner is a ‘case’ for Nietzsche.
