Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe

Martine Prange

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe

Martine Prange

Volume 61 in the series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110315233

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) supported the unification of Europe and reflected on this like few other philosophers before or after him. Many of his works are concerned with the present state and future of European culture and humanity. Resisting the “nationalist nonsense” and “politics of dissolution” of his day, he advocated the birth of “good Europeans,” i.e. “supra-national” individuals and the “amalgamation of nations.”
Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe analyzes the development of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideal of European culture based on his musical aesthetics. It does so against the background of contemporary searches for a wider, cultural meaning beyond Europe’s economic-political union. The book claims that Nietzsche always propagated the “aestheticization” of Europe, but that his view on how to achieve this changed as a result of his dramatically altering philosophy of music. The main focus is on Nietzsche’s passion for and later aversion to Wagner’s music, and, in direct connection with this, his surprising embrace of Italian operas as new forms of “Dionysian” music and of Goethe as a model of “Good Europeanism.”

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Martine Prange, Leiden University, Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Abbreviations and translations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vi
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
General introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part I Aestheticization: Germany as saviour of Europe
Chapter 1 Was Nietzsche ever a true Wagnerian? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2 Germanizing music and culture: Richard Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 3 Nietzsche’s reception of Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay in the spirit of Weimar Classicism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 4 The Birth of Tragedy out of Nietzsche’s concern for Wagner’s ‘Graecization’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part II Dynamic interculturalism: De-Germanization and the ‘Good European’
Chapter 5 Nietzsche’s anti-Wagnerism in the light of his increasing cosmopolitanism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 6 ‘La Gaya Scienza’ in music: Nietzsche’s new musical aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 7 Goethe as model of the ‘Good European’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 286
Keywords: 19th century; Goethe; Johann Wolfgang von; opera; Wagner; Richard

eBook

Published: August 29, 2013
ISBN: 9783110315233

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2013
ISBN: 9783110315097

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110481631