Nietzsche contra Wagner

Where Wagner Belongs

Unlike Germans, the sick, artistic French appreciate Schopenhauer and Heine because they value pessimistic, refined culture. Wagner belongs with the French. He is more of a Parisian Romantic than a German. French art, like Wagner’s, is based on world literature. Wagner and the French have an expressive talent for producing sensational artistic effects. Both are sick artists who stupefy mass audiences with their spectacular dramatic shows.

Apollonian and Dionysian German philosophy

Although the use of the concepts of the Apollonian and Dionysian is famously linked to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the terms were used before him..

Franz Overbeck Youth

Franz Overbeck was born in Saint Petersburg as a German citizen to Franz Heinrich Herrmann Overbeck, a German-British merchant, and his wife, Jeanne Cam..

Friedrich Nietzsche and free will Necessity vs. contingency

In On the Freedom of the Will, Schopenhauer demonstrates the (well known in philosophy) distinction between necessity and contingency. He calls necessar..

Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche after World War II

The appropriation of Nietzsche's work by the Nazis, combined with the rise of analytic philosophy, ensured that British and American academic philosophe..

God is dead Explication

The phrase God is dead does not mean that Nietzsche believed in an actual God who first existed and then died in a literal sense. Rather, it conveys his..