The Case of Wagner

The Scriptures The Case of Wagner belongs to the late works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it is the last work that he was still himself, 1888, published.

It belongs to the so-called " Turin estate ", ie the writings, Nietzsche wrote in 1888 before his mental breakdown. In this book (unlike in Nietzsche contra Wagner) Richard Wagner, Nietzsche describes influence on him, Nietzsche himself

So it said: " My most memorable moment was a recovery. Wagner belongs only to my diseases. " Nietzsche's critique of Wagner is complex, and although they mainly on late work, the Parsifal inflamed, he now moved it to earlier works and the Ring of the Nibelung, he still celebrated in the Untimely Meditations had. As a former " student " Schopenhauer ( Schopenhauer as Educator ), who later turned against the pessimism of his teacher, Nietzsche analyzed its influence on Wagner. Have Wagner as a revolutionary thinker, first the evil of the world sees in treaties, laws, institutions - the contract subject in the ring - later changed his world view, and the Christian motif of redemption came into focus. Many figures Wagner should henceforth be " redeemed". Wagner's " ship" is after the " Twilight of the Gods of the old morality" long run " on this funny car" ( optimism ), until it was moved to the " reef " of Schopenhauer's philosophy. He had the ring then translated into Schopenhauer: Everything in the world run awry, and all perish. So be only nothingness, Cancellation, "Götterdämmerung " salvation - and this nothing will now celebrated incessantly by Wagner. Nietzsche repeated several times that Wagner was the artist of the " decadence ".