Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe / / Martine Prange.

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 dissolu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Abbreviations and translations
  • Contents
  • General introduction
  • Part I Aestheticization: Germany as saviour of Europe
  • Chapter 1 Was Nietzsche ever a true Wagnerian?
  • Chapter 2 Germanizing music and culture: Richard Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay
  • Chapter 3 Nietzsche’s reception of Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ essay in the spirit of Weimar Classicism
  • Chapter 4 The Birth of Tragedy out of Nietzsche’s concern for Wagner’s ‘Graecization’
  • Part II Dynamic interculturalism: De-Germanization and the ‘Good European’
  • Chapter 5 Nietzsche’s anti-Wagnerism in the light of his increasing cosmopolitanism
  • Chapter 6 ‘La Gaya Scienza’ in music: Nietzsche’s new musical aesthetics
  • Chapter 7 Goethe as model of the ‘Good European’
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index