The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche holds the unusual distinction of having outspokenly entered the fray on both sides, initially defending Wagner in forceful terms before changing his mind and ...

However, the society of Nietzsche’s era failed to create such an art form, and his hopes for Richard Wagner’s operas as a cultural unifier ultimately proved ill-founded. For Nietzsche, Greek tragedy ...

THIS is a discussion of the cult of the hero considered as the shaper of human destinies; a cult started by Carlyle, developed by Nietzsche and continued by Wagner, Bernard Shaw, Spengler ...

In all great philosophical love stories, like Nietzsche contra Wagner, the student overcomes the master. Does Montinari betray and outshine Colli? Felsch suggests that Montinari’s communism is a ...

Nietzsche’s falling out with Wagner is one of the best-known aspects of his life. Although the Bayreuth Festival of 1876 is often cited as the moment of the break, it had been brewing for a long ...

Notably, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who had already broken with Wagner over the latter’s anti-Jewish writings, was not a fan of Förster’s views. Nietzsche wrote to Elisabeth in 1887 ...