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Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics:
inrethinking.blogspot.com — I have granted myself some small relief. It is not merely pure malice when I praise Bizet in this essay at the expense of Wagner. Interspersed with many jokes, I bring up a matter that is no joke. To turn my back on Wagner was for me a fate; to like anything at all after that, a triumph. Perhaps nobody was more dangerously attached to
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- ashok, on 07/19/2008, -1/+3Thanks David for shouting this!
What I do in this blogpost is walkthrough Nietzsche's Preface to "The Case of Wagner" one paragraph at a time, providing the text and commenting on it. The blogpost has two sequels, one which outlines "The Case of Wagner" and one which attempts to analyze what exactly is going on in the text as a whole.
Why should you read it? Because Nietzsche is difficult and dense and makes little or no sense without some help. It took me years to learn how to read him properly, and I still make mistakes. If you're wondering what the fuss is about his work, I really can't recommend anything else except this commentary. - ashok, on 07/19/2008, -1/+3btw, this is the comment I'm shouting this to my friends with:
This is a commentary on Nietzsche that starts by walking the reader through his words line-by-line. Why is it important? B/c Nietzsche in this text asserts that some music is bad, and the music he picks on is Wagner's: an attempted pagan revival at the expense of Christianity is attacked fiercely here.
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