Nietzsche's "The Case Of Wagner"
Thanks to the X-Factor, Nietzsche's rather boring philosophical text has been transformed into comedy gold!
Here's some choice quotes I picked out...
â"Through Wagner modernity speaks most intimately, concealing neither its good nor its evil - having forgotten all sense of shame"
"To turn my back on Wagner was for me a fate; to like anything at all again after that, a triumph"
"Is Wagner a human being at all? Isn't he rather a sickness? He makes sick whatever he touches - he has made music sick - "
"In this essay I declare war upon Wagner - and incidentally upon a German 'taste'"
"Wagner was courage, the will, conviction in corruption"
( taken from DS )
Here's some choice quotes I picked out...
â"Through Wagner modernity speaks most intimately, concealing neither its good nor its evil - having forgotten all sense of shame"
"To turn my back on Wagner was for me a fate; to like anything at all again after that, a triumph"
"Is Wagner a human being at all? Isn't he rather a sickness? He makes sick whatever he touches - he has made music sick - "
"In this essay I declare war upon Wagner - and incidentally upon a German 'taste'"
"Wagner was courage, the will, conviction in corruption"
( taken from DS )