(Ebook) Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Ryan Harvey, Aaron Ridley ISBN 9781474459396, 1474459390

(Ebook) Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner by Ryan Harvey, Aaron Ridley ISBN 9781474459396, 1474459390

Wagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. No other topic or figure more consistently and persistently appears in Nietzsche's books from beginning to end as do Wagner and his theories. For the first time, Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage in their book to show why he mattered so much to Nietzsche. Looking at bothThe Case of WagnerandNietzsche Contra Wagner, they identify and define the trajectory of a number of overarching themes - modernity, decadence and Wagner as the sign of decline - within Nietzsche's work as a whole in order to demonstrate how they crystallise into Nietzsche's final and most substantial discussion of Wagner inThe Case of Wagner. Assuming no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or the texts however, the book also offers a section-by-section interpretation ofThe Case of Wagneraddressing especially why Wagner is a 'case' for Nietzsche.