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A criticism of Richard Wagner and the declaration of Friedrich’s disagreement with the German artist, who had implicated himself too much, in Friedrich’s eyes, in the Völkisch movement and antisemitism. His composition is not anymore epitomized as a potential “philosophical affect,” and Richard is paradoxically likened to Georges Bizet. Although, Friedrich describes Richard as only a precise symptom of a bigger “disease” that is disturbing Europe, that is, nihilism. This presents Friedrich as a talented music-critique, and offers the site for most of his thoughts on the nature of art and its connection to the hopeful health of mankind. This is a piercing comparison with the second section of Friedrich’s The Birth of Tragedy, in which he admired Richard as conforming to a need in composition to go further the logical appreciation of music. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose profession has utilized a great effect on Western philosophy and present day academic history. He started his profession as a classical philologist before concentrating to philosophy. He was the youngest to have the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24. His career were largely on art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew primary influence from personages including Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Goethe. His work crosses philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while showing an attachment for aphorism and irony. A few conspicuous features of his philosophy contain his pervasive criticism of certainty in favor of perspectivism; his genealogical criticism of faith and Christian values, and his associated philosophy of master–slave principle; his aesthetic assertion of subsistence in answer to the “death of God” and the intense predicament of nihilism.
Product ID: 9781776724840
Sku: OG-681N-RZLN
