Ebook: Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner

The first full-length critical introduction in English to Nietzsche’s lifelong obsession with Wagner – essential for understanding Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole

• Situates The Case of Wagner within the context of Wagner’s intellectual influence on Nietzsche
• Assumes no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or the texts
• Gives you a section-by-section interpretation of The Case of Wagner addressing especially why Wagner is a 'case' for Nietzsche
• Provides a contextual backdrop to the many long-standing intellectual threads between Wagner and Nietzsche that find their expression in The Case of Wagner
• Includes a chronology of Nietzsche’s life and work, a glossary of key terms, an index of names and subjects and a guide to further reading

Wagner was a lifelong obsession for Nietzsche. Ryan Harvey and Aaron Ridley put Wagner centre-stage to show why he mattered so much to Nietzsche. Looking at The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche 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 – and then demonstrate how they crystallise into Nietzsche’s final and most substantial discussion of Wagner in The Case of Wagner.